Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution: This species is endemic to Brazil
Habit: It clumps rapidly.
Foliage: The bright green leaves are thin, graceful and straight
Flowers: Tillandsia montana looks a lot like a T. tenuifolia but the inflorescence is more violet to purple color and the flowers are blue
Seed:
Pups: The plant produces pups embedded from the foliage at the base of the mother plant.
Cultivation: The plant is adaptable to a range of conditions
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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