Aechmea 'Tropic Torch Red' CHINA the plant is a mounding

the plant is a mounding species which forms many ‘heads’

Flowers are purple

large and beautiful

but with a capitate inflorescence that blushes brilliant red with many blue flowers for a spectacular display

bearing small

Aechmea 'Tropic Torch Red' CHINA the plant is a moundingThe original Tropic Torch was an early Skotak hybrid of beeriana x chantinii that resulted in a colorful, fairly large plant with a very large head of dense, vividly red colored branches and showy wide bracts. The foliage gray colored with faint banding in a stiff upright rosette to about 36 x 36 inches. This form has nice red foliage, with a slight grayish tint, but the same vivid red inflorescence, a selection or new cross (?) by Bullis Bromeliads.