Tillandsia

Tillandsia 

This exquisite plant is from the Pineapple family – Bromeliaceous. Blue violet flowers arise out of a rosy pink spike. It flourishes during the summer or autumn.

 Tillandsia is an Epiphytic plant (that lives on another plant, although, contrary, to the parasite plants, it doesn’t feed of them). Because it doesn’t really need a soil, the soil doesn’t need to be specially watered, although it should always be a little humid.  Being a plant of tropical climate, it does need a constant moistness. Pour some water in the “cup” in the centre of the plant. To avoid fungi development, the central “cup” should be emptied every 15days and replaced with fresh water. It may be sprayed with a liquid fertiliser every 15 days.

Tillandsia is most suitable for indoor cultivation where the temperatures stay quite high and constant. It prefers abundant light, but not so much direct sun. This makes it ideal as house plant where it receives light from a window, but does just as well on a patio during the warmer months, where it is sheltered from too much direct sun.

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