Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution: Tillandsia paucifolia, sometimes called the potbelly air plant, is a species native to Central America, central and southern Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, the West Indies, and Florida growing at altitudes from sea level to 1,500m.
Habit: The plant is quite small attaining a height of 15 - 18cm when mature and forms a slightly inflated base.
Foliage: As the name means - few leaves - it does not produce many silver white leaves before it is mature- perhaps 4 or 5.
Flowers: The inflorescence is usually compound but can be singular
Seed:
Pups:
Cultivation: The plant is slow growing and from a newly formed pup can take several seasons to reach maturity.
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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