Plant ID please

[Tritonitis]

Hi all.

I had just finished helping a neighbour that has recently lost her husband with a small plumbing job, when in the way inside I commented on one of her plants "I like that one". She quickly picked it up and gave it to me as a thank you.

Can anyone ID it for me please.

Thanks,

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160305/8a2542a95dec788511a153a286b5fb04.jpg

[Cliff Rogers]

Looks like a Brom to me. :think:

Have a look here.
http://www.jacksbromeliads.com/variegationinbromeliads.htm

[Tritonitis]

I think you're onto it Cliff. Very different to the last bromeliad I had.

Thanks, .

[Ubernoob]

Yeah I'd say the same, an older guy across the road has planted a couple of hundred on the traffic island at the end of my street, the variety is pretty impressive as are the flowers.

[bsrlee]

If it has a 'hollow' center then its a Bromeliad.

But it looks like something I have growing in my jungle, comes in both variegated and plain green varieties - no idea what the real name is. If it is then it will grow up to 2.4m tall before falling over - when it falls over it then sprouts more shoots along the horizontal portion. Nurseries seem to propagate them by cutting the stems into short lengths and just sticking them into a pot, you get a bit of the old main stem and it then sprouts furiously just below the top of the old stem.

[Mulgabill]

Cordyline Genus

[Cliff Rogers]

What bsrlee is describing sounds like a cordyline or a dracaena.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=cordyline&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwvKftzKvLAhVlIqYKHR6jBEsQ_AUIBygB&biw=1920&bih=969
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=cordyline&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwvKftzKvLAhVlIqYKHR6jBEsQ_AUIBygB&biw=1920&bih=969#tbm=isch&q=dracaena

We have both & bromeliads, it looks like a brom to me.

[Tritonitis]

Thanks all. Just to close it out here is a pic of its water tank, so I'm pretty sure it's a bromeliad, but as a gardener I make a wonderful electrical engineer :)

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160308/298bd2c68a18eb38567e4b8bfd6775d5.jpg