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Old 09-04-2009, 05:15 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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"echinosum" wrote ..

Stewart Robert Hinsley;837897 Wrote:
It looks as if it's some type of bromeliad. I'm thinking Tillandsia, but

I can offer any reasons why.

I don't think any bromeliads have a tuber/bulb/corm (or whatever it is)
like that. But as to what it is, I have no idea. It makes me wonder if a
very young Beaucarnia recurvata might look like that, in which case the
"bulb" is a caudex. I think you'd be more likely to get an
authoritative answer on http://growingontheedge.net/


Yes, it does look like three young Beaucarnia.

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