Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
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Native distribution: T. plagiotropica is an epiphytic small soft leaved species from Guatemala and El Salvador, where it often grows in foggy forests at the edge of lakes.
Habit: Forms a small rosette up to 15cm at flowering
Foliage: The leaves are silver green, have a curved channel and tapper to a point.
Flowers: The plant forms a compact inflorescence that sits down in the rosette with the pure white flowers emerging above this.
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Cultivation: The plant prefers high humidity, some shade and good air movement. Prefers temperature, from 5°C to 25°C
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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