Match Stick Plant

Match Stick Plant Care

Aechmea Gamosepala

What is the plant

This winter-blooming bromeliad (ht 50cm) comes from Brazil. Its blooms are thick bristles of purplish-pink bracts tipped with iridescent blue bead-like flowers: the whole effect is of a bunch of surreal-looking matchsticks. After flowering, the spike turns dark pink for a long period. Like many members of the bromeliad family it will grow in hopeless, shady corners and even in places where there is hardly any soil. It can form an attractive, low-maintenance groundcover as it multiplies well: my large patch started with a single plant passed over the fence from a neighbour.

If you’ve recognized any mistakes feel free to notify us about it. This would help us to provide only the best-quality information.

Lighting

Part Sun

Hardiness zone

min 9a

Difficulty

Easy

How to Care for the Plant

Water
Small amount of water, need to put water in the middle of the rosette leaves, need humidity and moist, but well ventilated and well-drained soil, like in the nature big amount of rains and the plant that lay down on trees on joint between two branches and this area peat moss, leaves and other organic matter that stuck in joint
Pruning
How to prune:Dead leaves and bloom stems
Fertilizer
Feed in spring/summer by spraying with a weak seaweed emulsion (half the strength recommended on the label).

Disease diagnosis

Check your plant’s health

Ease your plant care routine with PlantIn's personalized system.

Sunlight
Light shade, Filtered shade, Early AM sun
Soil
Being epiphytic, it can be grown in the fork of a tree or in light sandy soil.
Temperature
warm climate, better more than 15C (59F) can survive 10C but not recommend