Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution: Southern Mexico to El Salvador in wet forests above 2000metres
Habit: Tillandsia seleriana has fine silver
green, leaves that appear to have a fine silver fur attached to them, particularly
at the base, these form a hollow bulbous base which hosts ants in its native
habitat
Foliage:
Flowers: It forms a multi spiked red coloured flower spike with purple blue petals
Seed: The seed capsules form deep down inside the centre of the plant - and the aerial seed is fluffy when released.
Pups: Pups form at the bulbous base of the plant
Cultivation:
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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