Photographer: Ed Finney, Sarasota, Fla.

NEXT | START OVER | PREVIOUS This Aechmea Bromeliad, Aechmea dichlamydea, has a very long (3 feet at least) inflorescence where the blue and white florets spiral around the central red stalk or stem. If you position the camera at the end of the inflorescence and look straight along the stalk, you get a picture like this one. Just about every floret is in view because they are positioned in a spiral around the main stem. Submit a picture. Copyright © 2004 Consolidated Publishing Co.