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Billbergia vittata is a tough epiphytic bromeliad from eastern Brazil, grown for its banded silver-speckled leaves and pendulous red-pink flower spike. It holds water in a central cup-like tube, so keep that reservoir topped up.
Billbergia vittata is a plant species in the family Bromeliaceae.
It is a tough hardy tubular shaped plant heavily festooned with silver trichomes in a distinctive banded pattern that boldly contrasts with the leaf pigments. The tube form is about 500 - 600mm high and retains a reservoir of water in the tube. The plant produces a brilliant red pink pendulous inflorescence with a series of small blue flowers, on whose nectar honey eaters such as the Eastern Spinebill feed.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Billbergia vittata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
