Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution:
Habit: Tillandsia secunda grows epiphytically, and is a large plant that can form quite large clumps. The plant has thick, stiff channeled, leaves that are green silver in colour. It produces many pups from the flower stem.
Foliage:
Flowers: It forms very dark almost black flowers that all point in a similar direction hence the name. It produces offsets all along the flower stem
Seed:
Pups: The plant is viviparous - (reproducing from buds which form plantlets while still attached to the parent plant, or from seeds which germinate within the fruit)
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.)
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