Name: Tillandsia purpurea XL In bud
Brand: martinafruit.com
SKU: 10031575774
Price: 24.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.6048 (7 reviews)

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Tillandsia purpurea XL In budTillandsia purpurea grows terrestrially in the coastal deserts of Peru along with species like T. latifolia and T. paleaceae, in these conditions the plants survive for much of the year on coastal fog. Purpurea is a beautiful species with soft, delicate, silvery, light green leaves. It produces lovely highly scented flowers that are purple and creamy white inside, similar to T. straminea. This species is easy to grow in high light levels with quick

stricta soft or hard leaf varieties or stricta var rubra depending on stock

Beginners selection pack number 2

Paraguay and Argentina

From Mexico and Central America Tillandsia caput-medusae is a striking species with lovely soft green leaves with purple edges to the lower leaves or sheaths

the plant can grow very large and produces a large and very long lasting flower spike with bracts of orange

meaning that new pups or vegetative growths are born on runners that stretch out from the parent plant making for an interesting plant with off-sets looking like satellites stretching out from the parent plant

It grows along a stem (caulescent) similar to T

The flowers last a few days like T

shadier positions than the silver leaved species

and likes a very regular misting with good air-movement and medium to high light levels

It is a mesic growing species

flowering size clumps

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