Species · genus Billbergia · Bromeliaceae

Foolproofplant

Billbergia pyramidalis (Sims) Lindl.

Growth habit

Unknown

Billbergia pyramidalis — reference photo — Jwgloverii · Public domain

Cultivars of B. pyramidalis

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under B. pyramidalis yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

A Bromeliad of Rosettes

Billbergia pyramidalis is a member of the Bromeliaceae family, part of a genus of evergreen, rosette-forming perennials. Its leaves are linear or strap-shaped, and it sends up panicles or racemes of tubular flowers set off by colourful bracts.

Source: RHS

Tropical American Roots

This species is native to a stretch running from the Windward Islands north and east into Brazil, with a range also touching Cuba, French Guiana, Venezuela, and the Leeward Islands. In the wild it grows as an epiphyte within the wet tropical biome, and it has since been introduced into places such as the Dominican Republic, Mauritius, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad-Tobago. Kew records a long tail of historical names for it, including Bromelia pyramidalis, a reminder of how often this plant was described and redescribed over the nineteenth century.

Source: Kew

Rosette Form, Colourful Bracts

As with others in the genus Billbergia, this plant grows as an evergreen rosette of linear, strap-shaped leaves. From that rosette rise panicles or racemes of tubular flowers, typically accompanied by bracts in strong colour.

Source: RHS

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 14 days

Humidity

Medium

Temperature

13–27 °C

Soil mix

Airy, fast-draining bromeliad mix

Propagation

Detach and pot rooted offsets (pups)

Fertilizing

Dilute feed monthly in the growing season

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Upright flame-red flower head in the summer months

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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