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Bromeliad Cultivar Register (16660) 2021-03-29

xHOHENMEA ‘Valley Sunbird’ ? / Aaron Smythe* 2015

Mature, large rosette to 70cm. diameter x 1 metre high. Arching, bronzed green to burnished orange spiny leaves. Erect, mealy, red-stemmed spike to 1.8 metres tall with short, branched, red-bracted clusters of orange flowers. An accidental, birds-n-bees hybrid. Reg. Doc. 11/2020.
Country of origin: Queensland Australia

Seed Parent: Hohenbergia pennae (dark form) Pollen Parent: Aechmea Red Surprise ?