Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae
Genus: Tillandsia
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Native distribution: This species is native to Chiapas and Guatemala
Habit: Tillandsia velutina is a venerable species that has been in collections for a long time because it's one of the easily collectible plants from nature.. This lessens the brightness of the color at anthesis (flowering) but for those who like pastels, this is a great choice. The plant grows to about 13cm high. It has a very soft green appearance, dusted with a delicate layer of silver trichomes, with leaves that seem to grow one on top of the other at the plant matures.
Foliage: It has velvety leaves due to it's more pronounced trichome covering on the leaves. Also, the leaves tend to be thicker and are a more olive color than than the standard T. brachycaulos.
Flowers: Produces a beautiful red-orange blush with purple tubular flowers emerging from the center
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Cultivation: An easy to grow small Tillandsia that will turn bright red when coming into flower , it can take full sun but looks its best in a shaded situation very hardy species, can be grown in sun or shade.
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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