Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tiandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution: Tillandsia schatzlii is native to Mexico
Habit: The plant has an upright habit
Foliage: it has thick, silver green, succulent leaves
Flowers: A long sometimes branched inflorescence is crowned with tubular flower that have purple petals that hug the stem.
Seed:
Pups:
Cultivation: Easy to grow
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: relatively rare
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