Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae
Genus: Tillandsia
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Native distribution: T. sphaerocephala is an epiphytic Tillandsia that grows in the forests of Bolivia and southern Brazil at high altitudes of 10,000 to 10,500 feet
Habit: The plant is a small but spectacular species that produces a rosette of gray leaves and a globose or fattened flower head.
Foliage: The channeled often twisted leaves are gray leaves about 6 inches long and 1 inch wide at the base and tapper to a point.
Flowers: The inflorescence forms on a 3 - 4 inch spike that fattens at the end with many purple petaled flowers.
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Cultivation: This is a drought-tolerant plant suitable for xeriscaping While it grows in full sun to partial shade, reduce water in winter.
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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