Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
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Native distribution: The species is found growing as an epiphyte in mountain forests of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica at altitudes form 3,500 to 8,000 ft.
Habit: This is a green leafed Tillandsia that produces 20 or so leaves about 12 -16 inches long which forms an erect rosette.
Foliage: The green leaves are elegant and curve downward.
Flowers: The erect scape is tall and bright red with many branches from which the small blue flowers emerge.
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Cultivation: The plant is quite hardy and can be adapted to pot culture or grown as an epiphyte on a tree.
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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