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Old 16-04-2007, 11:52 AM posted to sci.bio.botany
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Default please help! Botanical name of flowers ...

"mel turner" schreef
but I'm still pretty sure this is an _Aechmea_. Looking a bit
further, I think it's identifiable as _A. fulgens_, or at least it's
the species I was thinking of:

http://www.nybromeliadsociety.org/Ga...20discolor.jpg
http://olivier.paris2.free.fr/divers...9-Aechmea.html
http://biotech.tipo.gov.tw/plantjpg/...0variegata.jpg
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/boga/h...iscolor.ja.jpg


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FWIW the "red fruiting flowers" do not look ericaceous to me, at all.
PvR