Billbergia nutans

Wow - what vivid colours!

Wow from me too, is it a shade lover?

Absolutely fantastic PA!

Fantastic! Colours, plant and pic!

You have some fantastic plants Plantoholic!!! On to my favorites and next on my to buy list!

Now thats a great photo, added to faves

Thanks for the lovely comments everyone, Drc it spends the summer outside in the shade and the winter under the bench in the greenhouse. This flower is on a young plant when the main plant flowers will post some more pics. :-))

Thanks P

Just stunning....:>)

Thank you. :)

is this related to the fuchsia family?

Sticky, no its a type of Bromeliad, it has 5 or 6 buds on at the moment as soon as they flower I will post a pic of the whole plant.

i shall look forward to that ~ its a lovely flower, it just has a similar structure, i thought, to the longer types of fuchsia ~ sorry I cant remember their name ~ begins with a d!!