Dense yellow-green flowering panicle of Aechmea haltonii with reddish stems emerging from a rosette of long, pointed leaves in a tropical garden

Aechmea haltonii

Name: Aechmea haltonii
Address: PA

Endemic to Panama, this large perennial bromeliad grows on trees or rocks in humid forests. Its overlapping leaf bases form a central reservoir that holds rainwater. The leaves have prominent, dark marginal spines, and the bracts along the flower stalk are also conspicuously spiny. An upright, branching flower head rises above the rosette. The species is listed as Vulnerable in Panama. Its name honors Joseph Halton, a collector who helped introduce tropical plants to cultivation at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. Photographed in Florida.

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Aechmea haltonii bears pale yellow flowers on slender branches arising from red stalks

An Aechmea haltonii inflorescence branches widely into numerous small pale yellow flowers

Aechmea haltonii sends up a tall red stalk with branching yellow flower clusters above its rosette