"Attached are my pics of Pitcairnia rubronigriflora.
The inflorescence seems to be a short lived one as the last 2 flowers are opening up now(smaller than the first ones) and each flower seems to only last a couple of days and then starts a closing process that takes another 3-4 days to lose the color.
Maybe it is because it is such a juvenile plant." Wes Schilling
2005.0320