Bromeliad Cultivar Register (17747) 2025-03-31

*TILLANDSIA ‘Oriental Purple Flame’*	Wu, Zhijian	2017
Mature semi-bulbous rosette to 40cm. wide x 38cm high. Broad, channeled, recurving, gray-green leaves frosted with fine trichomes. At blooming, most of the upper leaves burnish purple-red, darker on the upper sides. Erect, extending inflorescence with bunched red bracts can reach 35cm. high, producing violet-petalled, tubular flowers, also from within the inflorescence leaf axils. Reg. Doc. 2/2024. Country of origin: China
Seed Parent: mazatlanensis	Pollen Parent: brachycaulos
Pollen parent labelled as T. bradeana, now synonymous with T. brachycaulos.