Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution: N/A
Seed parent: T. stricta
Pollen Parent: T. ixioides
Habit: Over time, the plant forms a rounded clump
Foliage: Like T. ixioides the leaves are quite thick and stiff with a silvery colour and are heavily covered with trichomes.
Flowers: The plant flowers regularly with light yellow lemon petals
Seed:
Pups: After flowering the plant will produce 2-3 pups
Cultivation: Like both parents it is an easy plant to grow
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.)
Availability: Occasionaly available
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