Air plants (Tillandsia)
This big air plant (species unknown) is preparing to bloom.
It's the section to the left, which has grown/shown up in the year I've had it.
It's not touching the soil, just looks like it from that angle. It's wedged between trunks of several Dracaena trees. There's some Spanish moss too (another Tillandsia) but it may not still be alive when pot goes back outside, it's getting too dry.
I have another one, T. ionantha, that lives on the trunk of another Dracaena tree. It's been there for 4 yrs. This is the best I could do to catch its' bloom. It looked like this for about a month, I never could catch the actual flower sticking out.
The oldest section is fading away, but making a lot of roots on its' way out, that are, finally after a few years, attached to the tree trunk.
This third one, species also unknown, lives on a Ti plant (Cordyline fruticosa.) Had for about a year.
Do you have air plants? If so, I'd love to see them!
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massey516 (NW Montana z 4b)
6 years agoTiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL thanked massey516 (NW Montana z 4b)Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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Christy Garrett
6 years agoTiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
6 years agoTiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
5 years agoAn update showing the whole plant. This does not happen quickly.
Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
5 years agoThe wind blew over the plant last shown and snapped the inflorescence,
so I was unable to offer any updates on that. But it is making new
pups/rosettes:
And T. ionantha is too:
Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
5 years ago
chuckerfly