This pretty brom is very vigorous and prolific. It formed a large clump in my garden in less than a year. Whenever I get around to dividing it, it puts on blooms as a thank you. Very happy growing in the leaf litter in shifting shade under my big Live Oak trees. I gave some starts to my neighbor, and it worried me that he planted them where they get morning sun. To my pleasure and dismay, his put on a spectacular show of blooms in March last year, as soon as the weather started to warm up. With the sun, and a spell of dry weather the blooms only lasted a couple of days, though.

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A 1975 Import into the US from Japan by Los Angeles nursery operator Jean Kerlin.
Japanese origin?

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The flower bud appeared quickly, one week after moving this bromeliad into the greenhouse to acclimate it for winter.

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