Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus: Allardtia
Native distribution: Tillandsia edithae is a cliff dwelling caulescent (stem) species from Sorata at altitudes up to 2,700m Bolivia
Habit: As a caulescent species, the plant produces a dense form with many polystichous leaves.
Foliage: The plant forms alternating stiff or leathery strap-shaped leaves about 50 - 70 mm long and 15mm wide at the base. Leaf colour varies from silver to shades of green often blushed with maroon. Leaf texture is soft or ridged and leaves are covered in silver scales or hairs (trichomes) that collect water and nutrients for the plant.
Flowers: Tillandsia edithae is one of the few tillandsias to have attractive coral coloured flowers, however it can be reluctant to flower.
Seed:
Pups: It produces both adventitious offsets along the stem and at the base of the mother plant
Cultivation: Grows in fairly bright conditions with direct sun - needs to dry out quickly.
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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