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Bromelia pinguin- Heart of Flame Bromeliad


Eric in Orlando

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Bromelia pinguin is one of the spiniest, nastiest plants you can grow. The leaves are heavily armed with sharp, hooked spines. It is also ver tolerable and will grow in sun or shade and is totally drought tolerant and thrives in good soil or beach sand. It is also one of the hardiest bromeliads tolerating into the low 20sF. In Central and South America it is often planted as livestock barriers. The plants spread by stolons and make impenetrable masses. It is native from northern Mexico to Colombia and in the Caribbean.


It is very spectacular when it flowers. And often it sets edible fruit.

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Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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Eric Beautiful plants thanks for posting I have these in Jax --- I have about 10 in a shaded over grown area --- I got these 33 years ago from a rental house Ilived in that had a whole front yard of them blooming. These plants survived all the freezes of the 80s probably saw 10 F. Thanks for posting Best regards Ed

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Wow, that is stunning! I've given away all the most vicious bromeliads though, beautiful or not. Just too painful to 'encounter' them in a small garden.

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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I don't grow that Bromelia but have a variegated clump of B. serra that's also very attractive.

Tampa, Interbay Peninsula, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10A

Bokeelia, Pine Island, Florida, USA

subtropical USDA Zone 10B

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Would these do well potted?

I have some cats that try to eat anything not caged up...

"Ph'nglui mglw'napalma Funkthulhu R'Lincolnea wgah'palm fhtagn"
"In his house at Lincoln, dread Funkthulhu plants palm trees."

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I would imagine it would grow well in a container, just put it in a big one.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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I can't imagine a cat trying to eat anything so thorny! But yes, nearly all bromeliads do well in containers.

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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When my parents first move to Orlando there was a clump of this bromeliad and some spiny Cereus and Opuntia cactus in the screened enclosure by the pool. We had a pet rabbit and he ate all three and also ate the leaves and spiny petioles from young Livistona rotundifolia and L. chinensis.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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  • 2 weeks later...
Just when you thought it safe to go back into the brom garden, along comes Bromelia "Killer" balansae with golden orb spider support. Word is, these guys are used to keep out cattle in the top end of OZ. Armed like a white pointer, be afraid, be very afraid.

My latest addition to my brom collection.

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Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Do you have any spare pups? I'd pay postage or trade.

I will watch for when the new stolons come out. We keep our clumps small as they can easily take over a good sized are very quickly if not controlled.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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