Bromeliad plant named `Guz 215`

Abstract

A bromeliad Guzmania having large floral bracts, the lower bracts being light green stained with cream, ruby red obverse and reverse gradually less creamy and ruby red to upper part of the inflorescence, after anthesis the bracts darkening to buff, the cream color being retained for as much as two months.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct Guzmania plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the floral bracts of linear acute form about six inches by one and one-quarter inches decreasing in size to two and one quarter by three-quarter inches at the apex, the lower bracts being light green stained with cream and ruby red, the obverse and reverse, gradually less cream and ruby red to the upper two-thirds of the inflorescence, after anthesis the bracts gradually darken to buff, retaining the cream color for about two months.