>>29553318>>29553706>The plant dies after it has produced its flowers in summer, but new plants can easily be propagated from the offsets which appear as the parent plant dies.That's what wikipedia says about Guzmania (the plant he get's his name from).
There's also the fact that the higher up of Aether are named after a lot of plants that either represent death or are invasive.
Take Lusamine, for example:
>It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant, and has become naturalised and invasive on several Pacific Ocean islands.The other two had something to do with being toxic (Wicke) or being related to death rituals (Faba) IIRC.