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Help me identify this plant

7 years ago

First, I apologize, I am unable to take photos right now so I don't know if you can help me without any photos - but I'm going to give it a try, and with a few suggestions maybe I can locate its identity.

A friend of mine was given a pup of this plant, and she in turn gave me one last year. It is a plain bright green, typical bromeliad shape. It is about 7-8 inches tall and the leaves are about inch wide. The unique thing about it (to me anyway) is that it sends out pups on streamers like an airplane plant. The streamers can be a foot or more in length. My friends plant has never flowered, and neither has mine. I'm supposing it would flower, but don't really know.

Any suggestions would be appreciated I will try to get photos of it when my camera gets fixed.

Thank you in advance

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splinter1804
7 years ago
Hi everyone.

Kadnil - Without a picture it's very difficult to ID your plant, but from your description where you say, "it sends out pups on streamers" I'm assuming by "streamers" you could mean "stolons" and in this case it could be a stoloniferous miniature Neoregelia such as the two pictured below. This is just a wild guess however, as to give you a definite genus and a varietal name would be almost impossible without a picture.

Hope this may help.

All the best, Nev.
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kadnil
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7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
I noticed a picture to the side of the screen that had the title "mystery austin bromeliad" and my gosh, that is the plant. So I guess it isn't a bromeliad after all but the Callsia. Thank you again. Now I know what the devil is, and I'm hoping to get blooms this spring.
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