Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
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Native distribution: habitat and culture:Native to Bolivia, Peru
Habit: The plants leaves form along a stiff stem with erach leaf tending to pointing forward.
Foliage: bright green, stiff 4-5 inches long on a long stem
Flowers: bright coarl inflorescence is erect and can be long lasting, it produces small but vivid white flowers - the combination of leaf colour, inflorescence and flowers is eye catching.
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Cultivation: An easy plant to grow, likes some shade from very hot direct sun.
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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