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Bromeliad Cultivar Register (14484) 2019-09-21

xHOHENMEA ‘Valley Message Totem’ Smythe A 2015

Mature, open, large rosette to 70cm. diameter x 70cm. high. Scurfed, black-spined, bronze green leaves (drooping lower foliage) with pale, silver cross-banding on the reverse. Long, leaning / decurved, mealy pink-stemmed inflorescence with rosy red bracts and branched, frosty green, woolly fascicles with lilac flowers. Grex siblings = x Hohenmea 'Valley Shadow Totem', x Hohenmea 'Valley Journey Totem', x Hohenmea 'Valley Spirit Totem'. Reg. Doc. 12/2017.
Country of origin: Queensland Australia

Seed Parent: Aechmea 'Roberto Menescal' Pollen Parent: Hohenbergia lemei