Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution: This species is native to Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras at about 1,400 m.
Habit: This impressive epiphytic plant forms a large upright rosette and with the flower spike can reach 750 mm long.
Foliage: The green leaves are large and spiky with a silver trichomed underside.
Flowers: The branched yellow inflorescence forms on a tall erect branched red stem.
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Pups:
Cultivation: The plant is very easy large growing species that will grow in full sun or a shaded situation. After flowering this species will make lots of “pups” or off sets and with age can form very large clumps.
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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