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Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Wittmackia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Wittmackia (named for L. Wittmack, professor at Berlin). Bromeliaceae. Tall herbs: lvs. with relatively small thorns, never banded: infl. arising from the lf.- rosette, with membranous sheaths, often nodding or hanging, compound panicled with long many-fld, racemose branches: calyx free or slightly adnate, the right side strongly winged: petals free, linear, acuminate, without scales: fr. a dry berry. About 5 species, Cent. and S. Amer. This genus has sometimes been referred to Aechmea; see Billbergia for cult. W. lingulata, Mez. Lvs. about 10 in a rosette, firm, strap-shaped, rounded, shortly cuspidate, about 2 ft. long, 2 1/2 in. wide, spines short, broad-based, about 3 lines apart: scape floccose when young; sheaths lanceolate; panicle pinnately branched: fls. numerous, sessile; sepals white, ovate, bearing an awn nearly 1 line long; petals yellow, ovate from an oblong base; ovary glabrous, rather cylindrical. W. Indies. B.M. 8056. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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