Does anyone have a more mature plant than mine? Mine was an unrooted offset, and has currently just started to grow into int 3" pot. I have read that this was a chance mutation culled out of a tissue culture batch of plants. It gets about knee high and kind of resembles a tayoensis without spines but with a more upright and more fully leafed out, thinner leaf form. It has apparently never yet been known to flower. Kind of an oddball little thing

I have wanted and I am always on the search for A. 'Stalker'. I think it's the way it grows and forms the little trunks that fascinates me.
"I stalk A Stalker"

Well, I got it from Tropiflora as a VIPP special. But it isn't listed in their 'regular' offerings. I read that it makes lots and lots of pups so there is a chance that if it ever gets more than 3 inches tall I might be able to share

I've never heard of it before, Tropiflora does get some unusual plants at times.

Sherri you can do a internet search and see the interesting different look. Sorta looks like a Bromeliad crossed with a Yucca.

Apparently its a Skotak plant that's been around since 2002. I have never seen it before. I read that it was a one-off that came from a tray of TC plants. I think it will be cool once it grows up. Its still very small. It has green leaves with a kind of rosy flush on them and almost feels like a succulent.

I saw it at a plant show a few years ago with a few inches of trunk and could not believe it was a Bromeliad. I immediately knew I had to have one.
I saw 'Shelldance' at the same show also with a few inches of trunk. 'Shelldance' has been slowly growing. I doubt I will ever see the trunk that is capable of.
Aechmea 'Little Harv' has quickly produced a clear trunk of 18".

They actually trunk?? That is so weird. Almost looks like a Ti plant. I will look up these 2.

I have tons of bromeliads and over the years have had only a few die on me, Shelldance was one of them.

Gina1960 said:They actually trunk?? That is so weird. Almost looks like a Ti plant. I will look up these 2.

Gina, I was surprised with the trunking also as I had never seen it in pics. I had read they can 3'-4' tall, but I figured that was including the flower spike at flowering.
Here is a complete photo showing the 18" trunk (stem). Total height from soil level to top leaf tips now 47".

Oh my! That is quite unusual!!

That is something, and I've never seen a trunk like that on a brome.

Really LOL talk about a stolon!

AhHa, so the name Stalker refers to the height of the stalk? I was thinking the other kind of stalker.

I am starting to second guess here that this is actually A. "Little Harv". I have looked at a lot of online photos of "Little Harv" in recent days and could not find any showing any type of a trunk/stem.
Here is a photo of a 2yr old pup removed in the fall. This one has a 4" trunk/stem presently.

Hmmm, very interesting, so the trunk is a characteristic of the plant, since offset is getting one also.