Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus: Diaphoranthema
Native distribution: Native to Brazil to Bolivia and Argentina with many different looking clones
Habit: Tillandsia tricholepis is one of the miniature species in the Tillandsia subgenus, Diaphoranthema (dee-ah-fore-AHN-tha-mah).
Tillandsia subgenus Diaphoranthema (Tillandsioideae, Bromeliaceae) includes 29 epiphytic species distributed widely from southern North America to central Argentina and Chile. The species of Diaphoranthema are characterized by few small flowers, and most species are differentiated by phyllotaxy, leaf shape, flower number, and by the morphology and number of bracts.
Species in this subgenus Diaphoranthema, including Spanish Moss, recurvata, capillaris, myosura, are the most widely dispersed of all the tillandsias.
Foliage: Produces nice looking cascading clusters with tiny green or grayish leaves on little stems.
Flowers: Tiny yellowish flowers when blooming.
Seed: As with all species in Diaphoranthema, it is self-pollinating. The flowers are small and inconspicuous. Because it is self-pollinating, however, it produces a lot of seeds that can disperse and start naturalizing on their own if you live in an area that doesn't freeze and isn't desert.
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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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