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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Anthony Darby on November 28, 2016, 07:05:20 AM

Title: Not orchid - perhaps Aloe?
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 28, 2016, 07:05:20 AM

I visited a friend yesterday to deliver some plants. He told me he had an orchid for me to take away before he killed it. Well, looks more like an Aloe than an orchid. Any ideas?

Title: Re: Not orchid - perhaps Aloe?
Post by: Matt T on November 28, 2016, 07:30:58 AM

Some kind of bromeliad perhaps?

Title: Re: Not orchid - perhaps Aloe?
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 28, 2016, 09:22:10 AM

Could be? That would be ironic, as the chap grows bromeliads!

Title: Re: Not orchid - perhaps Aloe?
Post by: Cfred72 on November 28, 2016, 04:57:51 PM

Yes, it's a kind of bromeliad, not an orchid.

Title: Re: Not orchid - perhaps Aloe?
Post by: Gabriela on November 29, 2016, 01:19:57 AM

I would also say it's a bromelia; I grew some as house plants, unfortunately they don't do well in the dry atmosphere in the winter. Aechmea species have spiny leaves and also Dyckia (probably many others).

Title: Re: Not orchid - perhaps Aloe?
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 29, 2016, 09:27:38 AM

I will be interested to see it flower. Here's a pic of some of my friend's bromeliads.

Title: Re: Not orchid - perhaps Aloe?
Post by: Cfred72 on November 30, 2016, 04:36:21 AM

And very beautiful lizards

Title: Re: Not orchid - perhaps Aloe?
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 03, 2016, 08:41:30 AM

 ;D

Title: Re: Not orchid - perhaps Aloe?
Post by: Kovacs Pal on December 03, 2016, 05:29:22 PM

Acanthostachys strobilacea?

Title: Re: Not orchid - perhaps Aloe?
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 19, 2016, 11:20:26 PM

Thanks. I'll look forward to seeing that flower. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acanthostachys_strobilacea_02.JPG