Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
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Native distribution: Tillandsia juncea has a wide distribution and is found from Florida, Mexico, and the West Indies to Southern Brazil, it is an epiphytic plant, found growing in the dense woods but also grows saxicolously, in semiarid regions on rocks in the company of cacti and cycads at elevations of 200 to 3,500 feet.
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Habit: It forms a clump of upright, compact, rushlike leaves, 12 to 16 inches long, that grow into a graceful fasculate rosette. The leaves are olive green tinged with copper and covered with short silvery scales on their reverse sides. While the size of this plant varies, it has a short, erect inflorescence composed of a few densely massed, distichous spikes
Foliage: The many thin leaves are quite stiff and often covered with silver trichomes at the base
Flowers: The bracts of this inflorescence are brilliant red; the petals are bluish purple colour.
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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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