Tillandsia

Tillandsia is a kind of plant of the family of the Bromeliaceae , as well as the Ananas. This kind includes/understands more than 400 species, either épiphyte S, or terrestrial, coming primarily from the American continent (Florida-Argentina).

The tillandsias épiphytes, most, are sometimes called “girls of the air”, because of their propensity natural to cling everywhere where the conditions allow them: telephone wire, branches of trees, barks… The sheets, with silver plated color, are covered with cells able to absorb ambient moisture. The roots, when they exist, are used only as support.

List species

  • Tillandsia ariza-juliae L.B.Sm. & J.Jimenez
  • Tillandsia baileyi Rose ex Small
  • Tillandsia balbisiana J.A.Schultes & J.H.Schultes
  • Tillandsia bartramii Ell.
  • Tillandsia bergeri
  • Tillandsia bulbosa Hook.
  • Tillandsia caput-medusae
  • Tillandsia circinata Schlecht
  • Tillandsia cyanea
  • Tillandsia fasciculata Sw.
  • Tillandsia festucoides Brongn. ex Mez
  • Tillandsia flexuosa Sw.
  • Tillandsia ×floridana (L.B.Sm.) Luther
  • Tillandsia lindenii Regelation
  • Tillandsia lineatispica Mez
  • Tillandsia paucifolia Baker
  • Tillandsia polystachia (L.) L.
  • Tillandsia pruinosa Sw.
  • Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L.
  • Tillandsia setacea Sw.
  • Tillandsia ×smalliana Luther
  • Tillandsia tenuifolia L.
  • Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L.
  • Tillandsia utriculata L.
  • Tillandsia variabilis Schlecht.

Traditional species in culture

  • Tillandsia bergeri , with the blue flowers emerging from bractées pink since rivet washers of sheets silver plated in tufts.

  • Tillandsia usneoides (without roots), with the aspect of hair, the small green flowers. Also called “hair of witch”, “Spanish”…
  • Tillandsia cyanea beard, with the flowers violets having the aspect of a racket with scales between which the ones leave after the others the blue flowers.
  • Tillandsia caput-medusae , with the astonishing forms.

Culture

  • frequent vaporizations, with noncalcareous water imperatively.
  • good ventilation to avoid the moulds.
  • much of luminosity, without direct sun.
  • ideal temperature: 20-25, minimum 5, maximum 35.
  • very diluted manure, vaporized once a month.

External bonds

  • Photographs of '' Tillandsia '' épiphytes

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