Tiger Bromeliad
Location
Bromeliad Island
- Common Name: Tiger
- Scientific Name: Common Name: Tiger
- Scientific Name: Neoregelia carcharodon ‘Skotak’s Tiger’
- Family Name: Bromeliaceae
- Origin: Florida – Pine Key
- Height: 16”
- Width: 30”
- Growth: slow
- Zone: 10A – 11
- Light Needs: Full sun – Partial shade
- Salt Tolerance: unknown
- Soil/PH/Texture: not picky about soil, if it is well drained, or can go without soil because it is Epiphytic.
- Soil Moisture: Mesic, water inside the rosette regularly but do not over water.
- Drought Tolerance: moderate and humidity tolerant
- Pests/Diseases: pest and disease resistant besides the occasional mealybug or scale.
- Growing Conditions: easy to grow and low maintenance
- Characteristics: Grown for its unusual foliage of green with bands of red shades when grown in the full sun, flowers are inconspicuous, under 1”, and bloom in late spring – summer.
- Propagation: by dividing rhizomes, bulbs, offsets, or pups.
- Wildlife: unknown
- Facts: This plant has become a star since its introduction. A stunning, large-growing plant with heavy reddish-brown bars across light green leaves. Great for hybridizing. The plant has no official botanical status. It was brought into cultivation by Chester Skotak.
- Designer Considerations: use as groundcover in a bed, as a low accent plant, border, plant around the base of a tall specimen, hang on a piece of wood or bark on your patio wall or as a container plant on a deck or patio.
