Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Seed Parent: Unknown
Pollen Parent: Unknown
While it is often sold as a T. tricolor hybrid, because it has bi-coloured petals there are some suggestions that it is a T. schiedeana hybrid. This from Derek Butcher July 2013 - This plant is becoming widely available around the world and has featured online in Planet Tillandsia as Tillandsia tricolor hybrid.
Hybridist is unknown and parents unknown and it is difficult to see how it got this unofficial name. But it is in commercial cultivation and needs a more definitive name. A better guess may have been T. schiedeana hybrid because in many hybrids with this as a parent you get bi-coloured petals – white at the top and purplish at the bottom. The problem was brought to our notice by Chris Larson of Melbourne and Margaret thought that ‘Moonlight’ was an apt name because of the pale part of the petals and I felt it was apt because of its dodgy origins! When in flower the plant is about 26cm high including the inflorescence.
From Chris Larson - Lloyd, this plant is circulating the world as T.tricolor hybrid, which it obviously isn’t, so Derek registered the plant as T.Moonlight. Now it is circulating the world as T.tricolor cv Moolight - the people where it originated have taken up this name. It comes up true from seed. The best answer is to call it T.Moonlight as this refers the history back to the detail on the BCR & differentiates it from other likely T.schiedeana hybrids such as T.Scurfy
Growth habit: Plant form is a slender upright plant
Foliage: The silver green leaves are thin. They have a fine trichome layer.
Flowers: When in flower with the inflorescence it reaches around 260 mm.It has a tubular shaped flower with petals that are purple at the bottom turning to white.
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Cultivation: An easy plant to grow.
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