Bromeliad Cultivar Register (11013) 2021-09-13

*BROMELIA ‘Aurelia’*	? / Skotak, Chester*	circa 1995
Huge, tough rosette up to 2-1/2 metres diameter. Heavily-spined, green arching / recurving leaves to 1-1/ metres long each, to 4cms. wide and with cream marginated variegation. Vivid pink-bracted central foliage cradles a raised compound head of mauve petals edged white. Woody stolons to 30cms. long. Reg. Doc. 7/2011 by G. Lawn. UPDATE, Sept .2021. Chester Skotak advises this cultivar is from B karatas (formerly B. plumieri). Country of origin: Costa Rica
Seed Parent: karatas
BSI Journal July-Aug., 2011. pp.196-7.