Queen's Tears, Friendship Plant (Billbergia nutans var. schimperiana) is a larger plant than Billbergia nutans and thus has much larger blooms. (Coke can provides size prospective)
by htop Feb 7, 2006 10:59 PM
Queen's Tears, Friendship Plant (Billbergia nutans var. schimperiana) blooms which are just emerging ...
by htop Feb 6, 2006 11:07 PM
Queen's Tears, Friendship Plant (Billbergia nutans var. schimperiana) blooms appear on a long bloom stalk that has beautifully colored pink to rosey mauve bracts. (Coke can is for size prospective)
by htop Feb 6, 2006 11:03 PM
Queen's Tears (Billbergia nutans var. schimperiana) common name comes from the royal blue in its blooms and because nectar that forms within the flowers spills out in tear-like drops as seen here. There are 4 drops of nectar on these blooms.
by htop Feb 8, 2006 10:24 PM
A composite image in which I spliced 2 leaf photos together of Queen's Tears (Billbergia nutans var. schimperiana) showing the underside of the spined leaf on the left (note banding) and the top of the leaf on the right.
by htop Feb 7, 2006 10:57 PM
