Yes, you are right, Aarti ji. It looks close to *Billbergia macrocalyx *as per Flowers of India <https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Tall%20Tubular%20Bromeliad.html> Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Billbergia_macrocalyx> Ngoosen <https://ngoosen.fotki.com/bromeliaceae/billbergia/billbergia-macrocalyx-1.html> Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billbergia_macrocalyx> Hortipedia <http://en.hortipedia.com/wiki/Billbergia_macrocalyx> FCBS <http://fcbs.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=photo&uid=default&photono=308&ww=on&mh=5&view_records=View+Records>
Looks different from images of Billbergia amoena as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billbergia_amoena https://garden.org/plants/view/242354/Billbergia-Billbergia-amoena/ https://www.gbif.org/species/2693722 http://fcbs.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=photo&uid=default&photono=293&ww=on&mh=5&view_records=View+Records On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 14:27, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]> wrote: > Garg Ji, > Can we consider Billbergia macrocalyx? > Regards, > Aarti > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 2:13 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think close to images at *Billbergia amoena* (Lodd.) Lindl. >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/b/bromeliaceae/billbergia/billbergia-amoena> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: J.M. Garg <[email protected]> >> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 at 20:31 >> Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:64804] Euphorbiaceae week - ?Euphorbia, ID >> help please 20110312sm >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> Cc: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>, Dr. Pankaj Kumar < >> [email protected]>, Samir Mehta <[email protected]>, Aarti S. >> Khale <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, < >> [email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, < >> [email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, < >> [email protected]> >> >> >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> “*Bromeliaceae*. Some of the so called Cat's Claw. >> Pankaj” >> >> “Could this possible be *Bromelia balansea*, Mez. or Bromelia pinguin. I >> came across the description of Bormelia balansae in Aima's book Pg 64 as >> follows: " A large dense and vicious terrestrial rosette about 3 ft. tall, >> used for fencing; stiff green leaves with dangerous hook spines facing both >> directions; center turning red before bloom; flowers white, in paniculate >> inflorescence forming branches of small.ovoid, orange yellow fruit with >> pineapple flavour. Can be easily confused with B. pinguin, but balansae has >> broad sepal tips, while pinguin has needle-like sepal tips and loose >> inflorescence." from Rashida ji. >> >> "Dr Samir ji, >> Posting my pictures taken at Jijamata Udyan....hope of the same plant. >> Taken at the Plant Nursery, a potted plant. >> One picture was posted earlier on the group....but I missed out the name >> in case it was identified. >> Aarti" >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Samir Mehta <[email protected]> >> Date: 12 March 2011 18:58 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:64804] Euphorbiaceae week - ?Euphorbia, ID help >> please 20110312sm >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> photographed at the Veer Jijamata Udyan in early January 2011. >> >> Garden shrub, 3-4 ft; was seen growing in a huge pot; no stem, leaves >> sprang from very close to the ground. >> The ?flower / inflorescence was silver in color (as seen in images). >> The leaf margin had small spines; leaves stiff, smooth surface and curved >> laterally. >> >> Regards, >> >> Samir Mehta >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg ([email protected]) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* >> & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. 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You can also use them for free as >> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than 2,00,000 images are directly displayed on 30.8.19). 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