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Canistrum (Greek, a basket). Bromeliaceae. Epiphytic or terrestrial hothouse plants, requiring the treatment of billbergias.
Leaves in a dense tuft, acute, spinulose on the margin : infl. compound, in a cup of lvs., on a very short st. as in Nidularium, or on a longer exserted st.; fls. usually green, rarely golden or blue. — A genus of about 10 species, natives of Brazil. They are sometimes referred to Nidularium.
C. aurantiacum, E. Morr. (Aechmea aurantiaca. Baker). Plant vigorous: lvs. expanded in the middle: fls. yellow, 2 in. long. S. Amer. B. H. 1873: 15. Gerge V.Nash.
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==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==