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Portea is a small genus of about nine bromeliad species from the Atlantic coast of Brazil, prized for tall, nectar-rich flower spikes. Commonly grown members are treated here as a group, and the key to success is bright light, ideally full sun.
Portea is a genus in the plant family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. It is native to the Atlantic coast of Brazil.
The genus is named for Dr. Marius Porte, a nineteenth-century French naturalist who died in 1866, in Manila, while on a specimen-collecting expedition for the French National Museum of Natural History.
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