Named for Eduard August von Regel, director of St. Petersburg Botanic Gardens in Russia (1815-1892)
Species
carolinae
Named for Caroline Morren, wife of Charles Jacques Édouard Morren, director of the Liège, Belgium botanical garden and bromeliad fancier extraordinaire
Neoregelias are members of the bromeliad family, and are from eastern Brazil. This cultivated variety is not
found in the wild.
Plants: Plants are up to 1½′ (45 cm) high and about the same in diameter. They like wet, hot, sunlit conditions.
Leaves: Leaves are waxy, long, narrow, and pointed, about
1′ (30 cm) × 1-1½″ (2.5-3.8 cm), green-edged, with cream/green stripes along their length.. They emerge from the center of the plant, which lacks a stem (acaulescent). At flowering time, the centers of these plants become brilliant red.
Flowers: Like most neoregelias, these are not known for their flowers, which are inconspicuous. This is unusual, in that most bromeliads have prominent flowers.