Neoregelia Bromeliad

This is a fairly common stoloniferous Neoregelia. That indicates that it does well on driftwood or on tree branches. Spaceman is correc...Read Moret. It only blooms once, then it becomes a MaMa and has pups, sending them out on stem-like stolons. The pups will mature and each will bloom only once. MN4

I have several hanging baskets of this type of bromeliad all over my yard, but for years didn't know what genus/species it was. Thanks to...Read More the identification forum on this site, I now know!

It grows quickly and does quite well in the hanging planters (see photos) with hardly any care whatsoever. (St. Pete, Florida, zone 9b). Although I've had it many years, I have only seen a bloom once, probably because it was a very tiny flower (kind of purple or lavender) and remained down inside the cup, where it would only be visible if you looked right down in the middle of one (which I hardly ever remember to do, since the baskets are hanging from tree branches in my yard, at head-height or higher).

(Tiny frogs sometimes live in the cups, too, so you have to be careful or you might end up with a frog in your face!).