PlantFiles: Cochliostema
Cochliostema odoratissimum

The one I saw at the Berkeley Botanical Gardens had pink flower bracts with blue flowers in the pink bracts and had many of them. They emerge from between the leaves and can have many bracts at one time all around the plant.

I discussed this plant with Enid at Natural Selections Exotics
and I sent her a picture. She told me the correct name for the purple variety is C. jacobiana. She said Odoratissimum is the all green variety.

Enid's words:
"Odoratissimum has all green leaves and lighter, more lavender colored flowers
rather than purple leaves and purple flowers."

This is a striking plant.

Tropical plant - origins: Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua. It has fragrant blue flowers and grows on the sides of trees in the wild.