whole plant flower
whole plant flower
Hardy, the leaves turn a nice silver in bright light. Grows quite happily in our shadehouse, but only flowers for us in the heated growing-on house. Which is a bit of a puzzle, since it flowers in late summer when the night temperatures outdoors are just as high as in the propagating house. Since it is a reasonably high altitude plant, it may be that it needs the more sustained higher daytime temperatures in the greenhouse to trigger flowering.
A shipment imported in October 2000. The leaves are a bit longer and softer than forms we have seen previously in New Zealand.
The seedlings we sold as Tillandsia albida AF92363 have matured now, and are obviously not T. albida. It looks like a hybrid, possibly with T. incarnata. When a seedling flowers we will advise what we think it is.
Comes from Central Mexico, where it grows on sand or cacti at 2,200 meters. It is found only in one canyon in the state of Hidalgo where the dominant cactus is Cephalocereus senilis (Sue Gardner, Journal of the Bromeliad Society International, January-February 1985 page 26-28).
