SPECTACULAR TILLANDSIAS

Can you imagine plants flourishing in the desert, sending arching sprays of fragrant flowers over their leaves, not rooted in the desert sand but perched on top of cactus? Or lovely white fuzzy grass-like plants growing happily on rock under the hot Peruvian sun, in locations where it seldom rains? These are typical members of one of the most fascinating plant groups - the Tillandsia family.

Native to the southern US and Latin America, Tillandsias are true air plants. They can nourish themselves totally - imbibing rain and dew and whatever nutrients the air brings to them - through their leaf tissues. Their roots are primarily used to attach themselves to a surface, a tree branch, a cactus or a rock. (SEMBS)

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	Descriptive notes for each plant: Culture - Habitat - Year discovered

Tillandsia tricholepsis bright, reminiscent of large moss, growing in clumps and strands - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina - disc:1878	Tillandsia capitata var. Rubra sunny, bracts become bright red at blooming - Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras - disc:1866	Till. ionantha var. van hyningii bright and sunny, grows only on the walls of Rio Gravilja canyon Chiapas, Mexico

Racinaea (Tillandsia) crispa (difficult to cultivate) shady, cool and humid, cloud forests of Columbia - disc:1896	Tillandsia cyanea half shade, may be grown in pot - Ecuador - 600 to 1,000 m - disc:1867	Tillandsia cyanea - inflorescence

Tillandsia stricta intermediate, half shade - Argentina, Venezuela, Paraguay - disc:1813	Tillandsia dyeriana semi-shade, may be grown in a pot - Ecuador - large fragrant flowers - disc:1888	Tillandsia deppeana shady and humid, grows up to 2 m high - Columbia, Peru - disc:1841

Tillandsia ionantha bright and sunny, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua - disc:1855	Tillandsia brachycaulos Southern Mexico and Central America from 900 to 2,000 m - disc:1844	Tillandsia brachycaulos sunny and bright, epiphytic

Tillandsia tenufolia sunny, grows in dense turfs in Venezuela, Columbia and Argentina epiphytic or on rocks - disc:1753	Tillandsia cacticola - inflorescence bright, sunny and dry - Northern Peru (around Huancabamba and Chachapoyas), epiphytic between 1,800 and 2,000 m - disc:1954	Tillandsia cacticola intermediate , half shade, dry grows in northern Peru on cacti 1,800 and 2,00 m - disc:1954

Racinaea crispa shady, cool and humid, cloud forests of Columbia - disc:1896	Tillandsia ionantha 'Rubra' sunny, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua	Tillandsia textorum hot to intermediate - sun and little watering - Peru, Ecuador - disc:1877

Tillandsia schatzlii sunny, interm. - a succulent tank- grows on rocks - Oaxaca and Tehuacan, Mexico	Tillandsia filifolia mod. humid - Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, epiphytic between 100 and 1,300 m - disc:1831	Tillandsia funckiana intermed. - half shade, large bright red flowers - Columbia, Venezuela, disc:1889

Tillandsia contorta	Tillandsia baileyi bright and dry, the pseudo-bulb variable in size - southern USA, Mexico, Guatemala - disc:1903	Tillandsia caput medusae intermediate - half shade, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras - disc:1880

Tillandsia lindeni semi-shady, grown in a pot - Northern Peru and Ecuador - disc:1868	Racinaea crispa cool - high humidity - shade, native to the cloud forests of Columbia, disc:1896	Tillandsia fasciculata variable, up to 1 m tall, dry forests of Columbia, Peru, Mexico at 600-1,900 m - disc:1788

Tillandsia flabellata half shade, may be grown in pot, variable - Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador from 100 m into the cloud forest - disc:1887	Tillandsia textorum hot to intermediate - sun and little watering - Peru, Ecuador - disc:1877	Tillandsia concolor epiphytic - central and southern Mexico from the coast up to 300 m - disc.1960

Tillandsia fuchsii Mexico, Guatemala	Tiallandsia bulbosa - giant red form humid - bright - from coast up to 700 m - S. Mexico, Brazil - disc: 1826	Tillandsia ionantha bright and sunny, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua - disc:1855

Tillandsia stricta semi-shady - Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay epiphytic - disc:1813	Tillandsia xerographica - flower sunny, little water - San Salvador and Mexico, epiphytic - disc:1953	Tillandsia concolor sunny - Mexico from the coast to 300 m - disc:1960

Tillandsia xiphioides	Tillandsia butzii	Tillandsisa crocata
dry, bright and sunny - intermediate, large fragrant white flowers - Argentina and Bolivia - disc:1816	shady - Central America between 1,300 and 2,300 m - disc:1844	sunny and dry, fragrant - Brazil, Argentina - disc:1887

Tillandsia tenifolia sunny - Venezuela to northern Argentina - grows epiphytic or on rocks - disc: 1753		Tillandsia capitata mounted on cedar, bright and sunny - Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, from the coast (Mexico) to 2,500 m - disc:1880

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