whole plant inflorescence
whole plant
inflorescence
Doesn't like growing in full light in our greenhouses, it much prefers a little shade and cooler day temperatures in the shade-house. In our temperate climate the air dries out in the greenhouses on hot sunny days, and this plant seems to need moister air.
Grows from Texas to Mexico and Guatemala. Given our experience, it is a little puzzling to read that T. baileyi is "…epiphytic on dry slopes at [850 to 1200 meters]…" (Padilla, 1972) and that it needs a " bright, airy location, little watering" (Rauh, 1979, page 93). However Sue Gardner reported that on the coastal plain of Tamaulipas in Mexico T. baileyi "...occurs only in the shade of the dense canopy of thickly foliaged, evergreen trees, usually Pithecellobium flexicaule - Texas Ebony" (Journal of The Bromeliad Society International, May-June 1983, p. 103). This corresponds to our plants' preference for shade.
