Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus: Diaphoranthema
Native distribution: Native tio Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.usually found in semi-arid habitats.
Habit: An interesting and easy to grow miniature species that only gets about one to one and a half inches tall, overr time the plant forms clusters.
Foliage:
Flowers: Produces tiny 3-5 yellowish flowers on a long stem that are only about 4 mm across
Seed:
Pups:
Cultivation:
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.)
Availability: The plant is not always available.
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