Nidularium innocentii

Plant Characteristics

Habit		bromeliad
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial
Origin:	✈	Brazil

Cultivation

Features:	✓	flowers, foliage
Flower features:	❀	red

Scientific Names

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Nidularium innocentii is a species of the genus Nidularium. This species is endemic to Brazil.

Read about Nidularium innocentii in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Nidularium innocentii, Lem. (Karatas Innocentii, Ant.). Stem- less and stoloniferous: Lvs. about 20, in a dense rosette, strap-shaped, about 1 ft. long, broadest near the middle, with many small, spiny teeth, green but more or less tinted brown or red. the oval bract-lvs. bright red: fls. in a dense head, white.— Named for the Marquis de St. Innocent, amateur, of Autun, France. There is a form with yellow-striped Lvs. This species is one of the best nidulariums. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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.

Cultivation

Varieties

• Nidularium 'Alwyn Gentry'
• Nidularium 'Blue Lines'
• Nidularium 'Chantrieri'
• Nidularium 'Digeneum'
• Nidularium 'Krakatoa'
• Nidularium 'Madame Robert Morobe'
• Nidularium 'Maureanum'
• Nidularium 'Orange Innocent'
• Nidularium 'Red Queen'
• xNidumea 'Chantrieri'
• xNidumea 'Midnight'
• xNidumea 'Penumbra'
• xNidumea 'Superstar'
• xNiduregelia 'Chantrieri'
• xNiduregelia 'Midnight'
• xOrtholarium 'Hades'

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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