A small clumping hybrid with warty textured leaves. Green with white and pink spine edges. Prefers bright light to full sun for growing conditions.

A tiny, 3 to 4 inch rosette of stiff, gray leaves that forms stoloniferous clusters. The inflorescence is a 4 inch spike of vivid red. Native to Peru and Ecuador where it forms huge epiphytic colonies in bombax trees, that may run into the thousands. Grow as a xeric Tillandsia, do not pot. This is a must-have plant.

This cultivar of Cryptanthus acaulis var. ruber is a small full round plant with 30+ leaves that attains a size of 8-inches in diameter.  The creamy coffee colored leaves, in the proper light blushes pink in the center, have a faint center ridge visible and are sparsely scaled near the leaf base.  The underside is fused in fine lineated stripes of scurf.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

A nice small hybrid that grows in a 10 inch rosette with a sort of ’pinwheel’ twist. Overall purple with deeper purple speckling and a bright purple flush at anthesis.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

A small sized, colorful, stoloniferous hybrid, with green leaves that tint yellow with red tips, in strong light. The center blushes cherry red when in bloom and the plants form attractive clusters.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

Obviously a very confusing species. Little resembling the ‘true’ species plant, this one from the Selby collection has glossy lime-green leaves mottled and barred with reddish-chestnut, stronger below and lighter above. 6 inch rosettes form clusters on short stolons.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

A larger clone of this familiar species, can reach over 12 inches across. An open rosette shape with light green leaves red speckled and red banded on the upper and lower sides. Red leaf tips and moderate spines finish the look. Used widely in many hybrids.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

A Lisa Vinzant hybrid of 'Honohoni' x chlorosticta 'Marble Throat'. An unusual small grower with glossy leaves with apiculate tips, green with a dark burgundy veneer and lighter red mottling, random green flecks and bars. Very unusual and quite beautiful.

*VIPP plants are Offsets

A hybrid of (brachycaulos x streptophylla) by Paterson. A plant of variable size that may flower from 5 to 10 inches tall. Somewhat bulbous and upright, the leaves are reddish and lepidote, blushing red at anthesis. The inflorescence is capitate with blue flowers. 

A really nice hybrid of (hammeri x concolor ‘Cuicatlan’) by Bill Timm. What a neat combination, a tall, stiff leaved, upright plant crossed with a stiff leaved open rosette type with a beautiful inflorescence. It worked! This is a jewel with stiff, upright, very narrow foliage, and a showy, branched inflorescence that is upright, taller than the foliage and pink and green to reddish. Interestingly enough, both species occur in the same area of Mexico! 

Tropiflora Succulent Mix – While we call this our ‘succulent mix’ we use this for many more things around the nursery.  Succulents thrive in it under our rather wet, humid conditions and so do many plants such as terrestrial bromeliads, tuberous Arums, and others. It is a good quality mix that we have custom made for us in 50 yard loads.

The formula is:

• 20% Canadian Peat
• 45% small Fir Bark
• 35% coarse Perlite (Sponge Rock)

It has a pH of 6.0.

Tillandsias mounted on cork or cedar, with a hook for hanging. What could be easier? We have a variety available. Perfect for your indoor garden or hanging on your patio.

*Photos are grouped to show how varied each mount can be. All mounts are sold individually.