#Summer Battle#
The water tower flower is a perennial evergreen herb of the bromeliad family with a very short stem. The leaves are broad lanceolate, sharply pointed, with fine serrated edges, hard leather, bright green, with a thick stratum corneum and absorbent scales on the surface. The spike-like inflorescence is erect, high above the leaf clusters, the bracts are pink, the corolla is vermilion, the petals are rolled out, and the edges are purple. The leaves grow in clusters from the rhizomes, with a rosette-shaped base and a tubular center. It blooms more often in winter and spring. Leaves leathery; Verdant and lustrous, clustered into a lotus seat, dignified and beautiful; The base of the leaves hugs each other, so that the center of the plant is cylindrical, which can hold water without leakage, resembling a water tower, so it is named water tower flower.
Water tower flowers prefer warm, humid, semi-shaded environments. Not hardy. Slightly drought tolerant and native to Brazil. It is a good indoor indoor foliage plant. Native to the tropics of the Americas, it is epiphytic on trees or in humus in tropical forests.
