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Beginner
skill rating |
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0.3m
max. spread |
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0.45m
max. height |
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2-5 years
to maturity |
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1 hour care
per year |
Botanical name: Billbergia nutans
Other names: Friendship plant, Queen's tears
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Genus: Billbergia
Species: B. nutans - B. nutans is a rosette-forming, evergreen perennial with linear, arching, grey-green leaves and slender, pink-bracted stems bearing panicles of pale green flowers with blue margins, dark green tips and rose-pink sepals in summer.
Billbergia nutans is: Evergreen
Flower: Flushed blue, Green, Flushed pink in Summer
Foliage: Grey-green in All seasons
Habit: Arching, Rosette
Billbergia nutans (Friendship plant) will reach a height of 0.45m and a spread of 0.3m after 2-5 years.
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Suggested uses: Conservatory, Indoor, Sub-Tropical
Cultivation: Grow outdoors as an epiphyte or in fertile, sharply-drained soil in a sheltered, frost-free site. Under glass, grow as an epiphyte or in epiphytic bromeliad compost in full light. Keep the centre funnel filled with water.
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Loamy, Sandy |
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| Soil drainage: |
Well-drained |
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| Soil pH: |
Acid, Neutral |
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| Light: |
Partial Shade |
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| Aspect: |
South, East, West |
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| Exposure: |
Sheltered |
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| Hardiness: |
Indoor heated (H1), Tender in frost (H3) |
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