Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution: Tillandsia incarnta grows in sunny areas around Columbia, Ecuador and Venezuela and is local known as "Huicundo".
Habit: The plant has many arched, channeled, silver leaves that grow on a long twisting stem that seems to grow forever before it produces flowers
Foliage:
Flowers: The plant flowers regularly with a long tapered inflorescence that has very small flowers mauve .
Seed:
Pups: While it can produce pups at anytime, after flowering the plant will produce many pups along the long stem. It can also produce pups from what appears to be dead tissue, so do not cut off dead lengths of the stem.
Cultivation: The plant likes bright light and can grow in full sun - it can withstand drought, and low temperatures
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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