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A catalogue of Bromeliads used for various projects by - Lloyd Godman

This is a catalogue of bromeliads used by Lloyd godman for his various installations and photosynthesis projects - the collection of pants he accessed in New Zealand from 1996 - 2004 was collected from a wide range of sources, while most were brought from Greens Bromeliads, some were also donated by the Dunedin Botanical Gardens. Later in 2004 these plants were either sold or given away with his move to Australia.

Lloyd is at present re-establishing his collection where he now lives in Melbourne.

A Lexicon of Bromeliads: A resource by Lloyd Godman

Genus - Tillandsia: Sub-Family - Tillandsioideae: Family - Bromeliad

Tillandsias are regarded as true air plants and as such are among the most unusual of the Bromeliad family. They range from bulbous forms and grass like structures to silver tufted masses. Typically they grow where there is free air movement like high treetop environments or across open rock faces, and often they are heavily covered in silver trichomes that help reflect the high levels of sun light they receive in these locations. While some tolerate temperatures as low as 5 degrees C (40 degrees F), or even lower, most prefer temperatures of around 10-32 degrees C (50-32 degrees F). While they require high levels of humidity, they need to dry out quickly and completely between misting or watering. As the trichome scales open to absorb moisture and close to retain it, it is important that the plants are given time to dry out and most plant deaths occur because of over watering.

Tillandsimania - is an interactive PDF and a work in progress which is updated annually for more information - Tillandsia – air plant E book

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Tillandsia straminea  

Tillandsia straminea

Clump of Tillandsia straminea


flowering clump of Tillandsia straminea

flower of Tillandsia straminea




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Family: Bromeliad

Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae

Genus: Tillandsia

Sub-Genus:

Native distribution: T. straminea grows as an epiphyte in Ecuador, Peru.

Habit: T. straminea has thin stirringly, streamer like leaves and can become enormous up to 90 cm across.

Foliage: The soft streamer like leaves are soft and brittle they can sometimes bend or break in wild weather. Most often the leaf develops a bend about half way rather than an elegant curve than many other Tillandsias produce.

Flowers: T. straminea produces a branched inflorescence on a long thin curved stem. The bracts and petals are whitish to purplish in color, the flowers are large and white with a rim of differing shades. The flowers are wonderfully scented with a delicate perfume like a Cattleya orchid and the plant produces many of them over many weeks. The plant retains colour in the bracts for months after flowering.

Seed:

Pups: The plant produces 2 -3 pups at the base of the mother plant which first show as thick pointed lumps.

Cultivation: This plant responds to grown in good, bright conditions but it is somewhat more susceptible to cold and to rot from hot, humid conditions when it doesn’t have a chance to dry out sufficiently. Allow good ventilation.

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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