Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus: diaphoranthem
Native distribution: It is native to Bolivia.
Habit: Tillandsia caliginosa is a species with soft, thin, elegant,grass like leaves. It is often identified by the new leafs folding out from one another at the base but then twisting in various directions.
Clumps easily growing into a ball-shaped cluster
Foliage: The leaves are festooned with silver green trichomes that give the leaves a velvet appearance.
Flowers: Produces 2-3 yellow flowers on each spike which are fragrant.
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Cultivation: Likes bright, airy conditions on the dry side
Fertilization: A mist every week with Epiphyites Delight or Epsom salts during the growing season will help the plant.
( Epiphyte’s Delight fertilizer was developed for a special reason. Nitrogen promotes foliar growth. If you have Tillandsias, Orchids, or other epiphytes and you feed them, take a look at the nitrogen content. If it’s high in urea, the plants can’t use it because the urea needs a bacteria in soil to break it down into ammonia and nitrates. Since the epiphytes don’t have any soil they can’t break down the urea. It was for this reason that we had Epiphyte’s Delight formulated. It contains only ammoniacal and nitrate nitrogen which is immediately accessible and usable by the plants.)
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