Androlepis fragrans VIPP 1-29-19 The leaf tips are dark

The leaf tips are dark blackish brown

There are color breaks of spots within the veneer giving the plant a speckled look of green and white

The cylindrical stems are kind of olive green with silver tricomes and bears scattered conical spines which are stout but not ‘dangerous’

A mound forming miniature lithophytic or terrestrial species from Bolivia and Argentina

cold hardy species

Androlepis fragrans VIPP 1-29-19 The leaf tips are darkOnly the second species in the genus; Androlepis fragrans was described from material first collected in Veracruz, Mexico by Alfred Lau Jr in 1993. He recognized it as something different and forwarded a plant to Aechmea expert John Anderson in Corpus Christi, Texas who in turn sent it to the Bromeliad Identification Center at the Marie Selby Botanical Garden in Sarasota, Florida. The wheels of science do turn slowly and finely but eventually this