Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus: Diaphoranthema
Native distribution: Tillandsia capillaris grows from Mexico to Peru, Argentina and Chile where it is found growing on cacti and trees from the coast to the high lands.
Habit: A miniature clumping plant
Foliage: The plant has about 20 gray green leaves about 25mm long extending from a 50mm stem.
Flowers: The plant usually produces one small flower per inflorescence with yellow green petals dusted with red brown
Seed: Produces a small, long thin seed pod on a thin wire like stem which contains very few seed, maybe 2 or 3
Pups: Like many miniature Tillandsdia species, the plant does not produce pups in an obvious manner but many small off shoots
Cultivation: An adaptable and easy plant to grow
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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