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Bromeliad Cultivar Register (13141) 2015-11-19

AECHMEA ‘Tropic Torch Red’ Skotak C / Deroose Plants * <1996

Mature open rosette to over 1 metre diameter x 90cm. high. Heavily scurfed bronze pink / grey arching leaves. Erect, scarlet-bracted spike with cream flowers. Note: seed parent Ae. beeriana was later reclassified as Ae. vallerandii. Grex sibling = Ae. 'Tropic Torch'. Reg. Doc. 11/2015 by G. Lawn.
Country of origin: Costa Rica

Seed Parent: beeriana (old Streptocalyx poeppigii) Pollen Parent: chantinii
Tropiflora code # 8822.