Grown from seed we received as "Tillandsia albida," but as the plants mature they are obviously something else. Coming into flower autumn 2000, we hope to identify soon.
A couple of seedlings flowered in 2000, but they had what we assumed were some sort of damage to their flower spike—the spikes bent forward then down. But this year more seedlings flowered, and they all look like pelicans! The inflorescence is nothing like Tillandsia albida, and we doubt it is a species at all. The flowers and floral bracts look very much like Tillandsia incarnata, but the leaf arrangement and nodding inflorescence are rather different. It is hard to imagine any influence from Tillandsia albida here at all.
