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A catalogue of Bromeliads used for various projects by - © Lloyd Godman 

This is a catalogue of bromeliads used by Lloyd godman for his various installations and photosynthesis projects - the collection of pants he accessed in New Zealand from 1996 - 2004 was collected from a wide range of sources, while most were brought from Greens Bromeliads, some were also donated by the Dunedin Botanical Gardens. Later in 2004 these plants were either sold or given away with his move to Australia.

Lloyd is at present re-establishing his collection where he now lives in Melbourne.

A Lexicon of Bromeliads: A resource by Lloyd Godman

Genus - Tillandsia: Sub-Family - Tillandsioideae: Family - Bromeliad

 

Tillandsias are regarded as true air plants and as such are among the most unusual of the Bromeliad family. They range from bulbous forms and grass like structures to silver tufted masses. Typically they grow where there is free air movement like high treetop environments or across open rock faces, and often they are heavily covered in silver trichomes that help reflect the high levels of sun light they receive in these locations. While some tolerate temperatures as low as 5 degrees C (40 degrees F), or even lower, most prefer temperatures of around 10-32 degrees C (50-32 degrees F). While they require high levels of humidity, they need to dry out quickly and completely between misting or watering. As the trichome scales open to absorb moisture and close to retain it, it is important that the plants are given time to dry out and most plant deaths occur because of over watering.

 

Tillandsimania - is an interactive PDF and a work in progress which is updated annually for more information - Tillandsia – air plant E book

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Tillandsia diaguitensis - (dye-gui-ten'sis) - (after the Indian province Diaguitas, Argentina)  

Tillandsia diaguitensis, Lloyd Godman

Family: Bromeliad

Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:

Genus: Tillandsia

Sub-Genus:

Native distribution: Grows as an epiphyite in dry sunny regions in Southern Argentina and Paraguay up to 1,600m (5,500ft)

Habit: A large bold plant that can grow long tapered leaves about 40 long up to 700cm long 6.5cm wide. The plant can get up to 1m wide 600cm high and form a spectacular flower spike rising 800cm above the crown. After flowering I have had plants that then form up to 12 pups.

Foliage: The plant has small arching sliver leaves on an elongated stem

Flowers: Can be reluctant to flower. While the purple flowers are small and short lived - a day or so, the flower spike lasts for about 9 months to a year. Although the flowers are long an tubular, they have confined stamens, and the petals are not keeled. The flowers have a gardenia-like scent

Seed:

Pups:

Cultivation: The plant is slow growing

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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