Common name:
Family: Bromeliaceae
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Country of Origin: Mexico to Peru
Description: Low plants; outer leaves reduced to spiny serrate spines, inner leaves linear, spiny near base, green; inflorescence sessile; flowers red or white, to 2 inches long or more, petals with appendages.
Mexico, Central America, South America
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USDA Zone: 9-11?
Source: Steve Macricosta, Costa R
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Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Poales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Bromeliaceae
- SubFamily: Pitcairnioideae
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References:
- Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, January 09, 2017.
- WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Monday, January 09, 2017.
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