Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution: The plant grows as an epiphyte at elevations from 1,000m to 3,000m the the forests of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Habit: This is a smaller tillandsia with a multitude of soft leaves forming a dense feathery rosette, which is very attractive through the symmetrical form it produces. The leaves are heavily covered with silvery trichomes and are about 100 - 150mm long. The scape is short with the inflorescence almost hidden in the centre of the rosette of leaves. The plant produces two flowers from the red, silver trichome encrusted inflorescence that are long and tubular with violet petals. The anthers produces yellow pollen while the stigma sits just above the anthers.
Foliage:
Flowers: The flowers are tubular, with confined stamens, and the petals are not keeled.
Seed:
Pups:
Cultivation:
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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