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Neorgelia carolinae (Beer) L.B.Sm. Perennial evergreen herb of the pineapple family. The plant height is 25-30 centimeters, and the stem is short. Leaves are leathery, banded, often basal, arranged in a lotus like pattern, with serrated leaf edges. The flowers are bisexual, rarely unisexual, radially symmetrical or slightly bilaterally symmetrical, and the inflorescence is a terminal spike like inflorescence. There are milky white to milky yellow longitudinal stripes in the center of the leaves, and the base is clustered into a tube shape. During flowering, the lower half or entire leaf of the inner whorl turns bright red. The small flower is blue purple.