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Glomeropitcairnia penduliflora is a very large tank bromeliad, an epiphyte from the Lesser Antilles (Martinique and Dominica) that holds a large central reservoir of rainwater. It is a specialist plant rarely grown outside botanical collections, needing a warm, humid, wet-tropical setting.
Glomeropitcairnia penduliflora is a very large tank bromeliad native to the islands of Martinique and Dominica in the Lesser Antilles. The tank can be as much as 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) wide and up to 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) high, up from the middle of which comes an inflorescence up to 3 m (9.8 ft) height. According to Newman, the tank can hold as much as 114 L (25 imp gal; 30 US gal) of rainwater.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Glomeropitcairnia penduliflora 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.
