Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution: Tillandsia prinosa is found from Florida to Brazil, where it grows epiphytically on forests trees, and also on shrubs in dry regions from sea level to the high Andes mountains
Habit: It forms a small, octopus like plant, about 5 inches in height. While the leaves are quite wide and thick at the base creating a sheath that covers most of the irregular, swollen, bulbous base they taper off towards the end, twisting and twining as they extend outwards. These leaves are covered with a dense, silvery scales resemble frost.
Foliage:
Flowers: The plant forms a short inflorescence that has rose pink bracts and flowers with purple petals and yellow stamens.
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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