Neoregelia 'Maria' – Live Bromeliad for Terrariums & Vivariums | India

💰 Price per plant: ₹1000

Neoregelia 'Maria' is a soft, elegant medium bromeliad with a gently coloured, tidy rosette, an easy, graceful centrepiece that brings quiet balance to a busy layout. Neoregelias are among the most popular bromeliads for planted terrariums and vivariums, grown for the colour held in their leaves rather than for their flowers; each plant forms a low rosette with a watertight central cup.

Origin and form

The Neoregelia genus comes from the rainforests of eastern Brazil, where the plants grow as epiphytes on branches and among leaf litter. 'Maria' keeps a tidy medium rosette that warms gently as light increases.

Care at a glance

• Light: bright, indirect light for the best colour.
• Water: keep the central cup topped up with clean, fresh water; let the mix stay lightly moist, not soggy.
• Humidity: high; thrives in closed terrariums, vivariums and paludariums.
• Temperature: comfortable from about 15°C to 32°C, covering normal indoor conditions across India.
• Difficulty: easy, one of the most forgiving bromeliads for beginners.

Styling and terrarium use

Use 'Maria' as a graceful centrepiece in a vivarium, the planted land zone of a paludarium, or a larger terrarium. Its soft colouring is easy to place beside bolder plants, and the water-holding cup suits dart-frog vivariums. Grow it emersed, above the waterline; it is not an aquatic plant and must not be submerged. The foliage is non-toxic and pet-safe.

Propagation

Each rosette flowers once, then sends out pups around its base. Detach them when they reach about a third of the parent's size to grow on, so one plant slowly becomes many.

Ordering

Supplied as healthy, nursery-grown live plants in sets of 10 and shipped across India. The set suits collectors building a display, terrarium and vivarium builders planting in quantity, and resellers.

Part of our Terrarium & Paludarium Plants range, shipped live across India.