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Tack said:

thanks Carter,

I have compared the aechmea gamosepala with other photos and it seems to be a dead match but as you say the second one is harder to identify. It is possible that they are the same but when looking at them here side by side the leaves do appear to be slightly different.

I will treat it as an aechmea and hopefully i will get it to flower, if thats the right word.

thanks for your help, thats great.

So they are two separate plants? It looked like it, but I wasn't positive from the pics. If that is the case, the second one is definitely a different variety of bromeliad, and if I had to guess, I'd think it was a kind of Billbergia as I mentioned before. There are so many different hybrids that look similar, it might be really difficult to narrow that one down. A bloom will definitely confirm Billbergia or not, but not necessarily the specific type of Billbergia. Can you post a pic of that whole plant from the side view?