day 31 - what plant?

[christophm]

Can you help?  We should know as it’s in our garden, but we don’t!  I'll put some more pictures on this site and my blog later.

[Tim N]

Nice pic, great colour and focus .. no idea about the plant tho !

[bigbob]

Great photo but no idea what it is

[Ross and Cher]

Bromeliad - we have em too! Nice shot Christoph!!!!

[Cher and Ross]

Ah yes we had a stack of them at Tweed....good shot!

[tommykelso]

great effort and focus on this one!

[Analog6]

That's a beautifully colored bromelliad.  I went and heaved down What Flower Is That from the bookshelf but Bromelliads are not in it!

A Google image search turned up a similar one on Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightcliff/3625715671/  and the http://www.bromeliad.org.au/

[christophm]

How do you like the comment by a friend on Facebook: "Looks like a bottle brush exposed to extreme cold weather, hence the blue tips;-)"

[Ross and Cher]

Don't know what sort of bottle hthey've been brushing...... These are also great subjects for focus stacking!!!!

[christophm]

That's a beautifully colored bromelliad.  I went and heaved down What Flower Is That from the bookshelf but Bromelliads are not in it!

A Google image search turned up a similar one on Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightcliff/3625715671/  and the http://www.bromeliad.org.au/

Odille, thanks for the link.  I didn't realise how many variants of bromeliads there are.  The genus list is incredible.  And we definitely have some of them in the garden.

[Analog6]

I became interested in them when we had a really beautiful and unusual one in the garden in Canberra.  They are good photo subjects too.