Species · genus Neoregelia · Bromeliaceae

Neoregelia cruenta

Neoregelia cruenta (Graham) L.B.Sm.

Growth habit

epiphyte or lithophyte

Native range

Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast

Reference · N. cruenta

Cultivars of N. cruenta

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

No named cultivars catalogued under N. cruenta 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.

Neoregelia cruenta is a Brazilian bromeliad that grows on trees and rock, so it drains fast and rots if its roots sit wet. Let the gritty, fast-draining mix dry out before watering again — water when the top inch is dry — and keep airflow around it. As a tank bromeliad it can hold a little water in its central cup, but in a typical home it is safer to keep the cup mostly empty than to leave it stagnant.

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

15–30 °C

Soil mix

Airy, fast-draining bromeliad or orchid mix

Propagation

Separate offset pups after flowering

Fertilizing

Very dilute feed occasionally to the soil, not the central cup

Growth rate

Slow

Flowering

Center flushes color at bloom, once per rosette

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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