Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution: Native to Brazil. fantastic little species from Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest.
Habit: Tillandsia mallemontii is a miniature species that grows and clumps rapidly. The purple blue flowers are fragrant.
Foliage: Filament like leaves - a soft, thin-leaved clumping species
Flowers: The flowers are tubular, with confined stamens, and the petals are not keeled.Produces almost continously lots of large, purple fragrant flowers. lovely blue flowers that are lightly and sweetly scented
Seed:
Pups: The plant is so fine it can be difficult to see the new pups forming, but the plant continually forms new pups.
Cultivation: One of the easiest Tillandsias to grow. May be grown mounted or as a hanging cluster. With good air and medium light it is a fast grower that rewards its owner with frequent bouquets of flowers.
Enjoys good air circulation, medium to bright shaded conditions and frequent watering with fast drying.
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: The plant is often available
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