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Brother Marie-Victorin on the Varadero beach, with his sisters and a friends, 1939
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Aechmea


Aechmea nudicaulis
Bromeliaceae

Species collected in Cuba by Brother Marie-Victorin. Arrived at the Montr?al Botanical Garden on February 18, 1939, as a plant.


In San Miguel de los Ba?os, a seaside resort, Marie-Victorin photographed this young girl holding an Aechmea nudicaulis plant,

one of Cuba's most
remarkable terrestrial bromeliads,

he wrote.

UdeM: E01185FP11461

Photo: Raymond Gagnon, JBM   




Aechmea nudicaulis is still part
of the Garden's bromeliad collection.
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