Sooner or later, it is said, everything old is new again. But 65 million years old? Bromeliads, which shared the Earth in the Cretaceous Era with dinosaurs, and which have been a staple of indoor ...

When ‘’imperalis’’ is part of a plant’s botanical name, you can be sure it’s special. That’s certainly the case for the giant alcantarea (A. imperialis, formerly Vriesea imperalis). A Brazilian ...