Species · genus Neoregelia · Bromeliaceae

Neoregelia cruenta

Neoregelia cruenta (Graham) L.B.Sm.

Growth habit

epiphyte or lithophyte

Native range

Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast

Neoregelia cruenta — reference photo — (c) Victor Farjalla Pontes, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0

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.

A Brazilian Rosette Bromeliad

Neoregelia cruenta is a rosette-forming bromeliad in the family Bromeliaceae, grown for its strap-shaped leaves and the colour that gathers at the centre of the plant. It belongs to a genus whose members are evergreen perennials, valued as much for foliage as for flower.

Source: RHS

Native to Coastal Brazil

This species comes from Brazil, found along a stretch running from southeastern Bahia down to São Paulo. In the wild it grows as an epiphyte, perched on trees, or as a lithophyte, rooted on bare rock, and it belongs to the wet tropical biome.

Source: Kew

Rosette, Strap Leaves, Showy Bracts

Like others in its genus, Neoregelia cruenta forms an evergreen rosette of strap-shaped leaves, with the inner leaves often taking on brighter colour. In summer, small tubular flowers appear in a dense cluster at the centre of the rosette, set off by showy bracts.

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

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

Every image credited. Licenses link to their deeds.

(c) Victor Farjalla Pontes, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0

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

Kept true by its growers

Every fact here carries its source. Grow Neoregelia cruenta yourself? What you’ve observed — how it drinks, how it holds its color, a name that’s off — and a clear photo of your plant are exactly what keep this page honest. Contributions are reviewed before anything changes.