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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 magnusiana - Wittmack 1901 ( Named after the botanist Magnus)

Tillandsia Magnusiana

 Flower spike of Tillandsia Magnusiana

Tillandsia Magnusiana





open flowwer of Tillandsia Magnusiana

 

 

 

 

Tillandsia magnusiana clump


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Family: Bromeliad

Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:

Genus: Tillandsia

Sub-Genus:

Native distribution: The plant grows as an epiphyte at elevations from 1,000m to 3,000m the the forests of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

Habit: This is a smaller tillandsia with a multitude of soft leaves forming a dense feathery rosette, which is very attractive through the symmetrical form it produces. The leaves are heavily covered with silvery trichomes and are about 100 - 150mm long. The scape is short with the inflorescence almost hidden in the centre of the rosette of leaves. The plant produces two flowers from the red, silver trichome encrusted inflorescence that are long and tubular with violet petals. The anthers produces yellow pollen while the stigma sits just above the anthers.

Foliage:

Flowers: The flowers are tubular, with confined stamens, and the petals are not keeled.

Seed:

Pups:

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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