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Bromeliad Cultivar Register (17747) 2025-03-31

TILLANDSIA ‘Oriental Purple Flame’ Wu, Zhijian 2017

Mature semi-bulbous rosette to 40cm. wide x 38cm high. Broad, channeled, recurving, gray-green leaves frosted with fine trichomes. At blooming, most of the upper leaves burnish purple-red, darker on the upper sides. Erect, extending inflorescence with bunched red bracts can reach 35cm. high, producing violet-petalled, tubular flowers, also from within the inflorescence leaf axils. Reg. Doc. 2/2024.
Country of origin: China

Seed Parent: mazatlanensis Pollen Parent: brachycaulos
Pollen parent labelled as T. bradeana, now synonymous with T. brachycaulos.