Neoregelia retrorsa LANDSCAPE A slow grower

A slow grower

At any rate it is a light chartreuse green plant with red mottling and red ‘fingernail’ tips

but the foliage was completely black from the soot of diesel exhaust

ending abruptly in a blunt tip

it’s is a spectacular

Neoregelia retrorsa LANDSCAPE A slow growerA new species that was released for the first time anywhere by Tropiflora. Described in 2011 by Leme & L. Kollmann, its large growing plant with four inch wide leaves found in Atlantic Forest habitat in Espiritu Santo and adjacent Bahia states of Brazil. Light green colored leaves that have dark green mottling throughout. In the newer growth the leaves develop white and pink colored patches and the older lower leaves turn a tan color. The leaf edges