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Bromeliad Cultivar Register (17069) 2022-04-21

xRACINDSIA ‘Trilobite’ Takizawa, Hiroyuki 2014

Mature, open rosette to 22cm. diameter x 18cm. high. Arching, narrow, dark green, channeled leaves, tapering to a point with coppery red leaf axils. Arching spike to 20cm. long with a flat-shaped inflorescence of dark red floral bracts and lavender flowers. So named because the floral bracts pattern resembles the fin pattern of fossilised trilobites, which are extinct marine arthropods. Reg. Doc. 1/2022
Country of origin: Japan

Seed Parent: Racinaea dyeriana Pollen Parent: Tillandsia neglecta (red form)