This is a Tillandsia cyanea - Pink Quill Bromeliaceae. AKA an air plant. Most of the year it is thin green leaves. Period. Then, it sends out this insanely fluorescent pink "thing". Not really a flower, because after you have viewed in awe the gorgeous pink "thing", suddenly when you are ambling around the yard you notice it has produced an insanely fluorescent purple flower, also. Many surprises come with tropical plants. It seems the hotter the climate the more insane the foliage. Maybe it is Mother Nature's gift to balance the critters, snakes and other bizarre critters that also share the climate. Alligators. Sharks. Poisonous Lion Fish. Fire Coral. Crocodiles. Rat Snakes. Scorpions. Poisous Bufo Frogs. Etc.
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