Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution:Tillandsia graomogolensis (Kurt-Horstii) is native to Brazil, it is a rare specimen and said to come from the region of Grão Mogol. which is about 900m elevation. At Grão Mogol's the climate is classified as warm and temperate. The temperature ranges from a low of 12 C in mid winter to a high of 30C in mid summer
Habit: It has a growth habit of forming loose balls of many interlacing leaves. The plant produces many displacements and agglomerations rapidly forming a clump. It has the same basic shape as T. streptocarpa but the leaves are much fuzzier (long and coarser trichomes) and is often compared to T. tectorum.
Foliage: It has soft leaves, with a diffuse appearance caused by the profusion of silver trichomes. In some respects it is, similar to T. duratii and T.arhiza. although smaller than the aforementioned. It usually reaches ten centimeters in height.
Flowers: flowers are solid dark blue, relatively large and delightfully sweetly scented which makes it a very desirable plant.
Seed:
Pups: Pups form from the base of the mother plant on the stem
Cultivation: With bright light it will develop quickly into a wonderful clump. In its native habitat during winter, there is much less rainfall than in summer, so keep the plant dryer in winter and mist frequently in summer.
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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