Urn plant
Aechmea fasciata (Lindl.) Baker
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 41 cm
- wide
- 41 cm
Bromeliaceae
Also called Urn Plant, Urnplant
Formerly Aechmea hamata, Aechmea leopoldii, Aechmea rhodocyanea, Billbergia fasciata, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- EpiphyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 30 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; NC State Extension 1–3 ft
- Spread
- 30 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; NC State Extension 1–2 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 4.5 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 10 °C; NC State Extension -1.1 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Bromelia de la Mata Atlántica, Piñuela
- Dutch
- roodblauwe kokerbromelia
- Czech
- echmea pruhovaná
- Japanese
- アケボノアナナス
- Chinese (China)
- 美叶光萼荷
- Chinese
- 蜻蜓鳳梨, 美叶光萼荷
- Russian
- Эхмея полосатая
- Swedish
- blomsterananas
- Polish
- Echmea wstęgowata
- Hungarian
- Csíkolt Lándzsarózsa
- Finnish
- kirjohuisku
- Slovak
- echmea pásikavá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Aechmea fasciata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.