A nice hybrid with silvery-white leaves in a full rosette that can reach 10 inches across in larger specimens. The inflorescence is fairly stricta-like, about 6 inches long and nodding. The bracts are bright pink frosted with silver on the tips. A choice plant that needs a good name.

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Everyone loves a surprise and this is a good one. We've created four different sizes of our newest collection, Tillandsia "Surprise Box", featuring a random assortment of quality tillandsias of all types and in various stages of growth. You will receive a grower's choice variety of healthy plants which may include previously bloomed plants with pups or some with slight damage. All plants are shipped unwrapped and untagged. 

Small Box will include 10-12 plants (extra fee for tags available in your cart**).

Medium Box will include 20-24 plants (extra fee for tags available in your cart**).

Large Box will include 30-34 plants (extra fee for tags available in your cart**).

Plant boxes with added tags may delay shipment.

This is a great deal for beginners or if you are just looking for tillandsias at a drastically reduced price.

*VIPP discount will NOT APPLY to this product due to the deep discounts already applied in the price.

**International orders are REQUIRED to purchase plant tags. This fee will be added to all international shipments if tags are not paid for at the time of purchase.

This is a superior clone of the species that has been grown in cultivation from seed! This is a long and arduous process for any Tillandsia and especially such relatively slow species as these. A species supremely adapted to the harsh climate of the nearly rain free canyons of interior southern Ecuador and northern Peru.

The plants, resembling cotton candy, are covered with a heavy coat of silver trichomes giving them an otherworldly appearance. In nature the plants use their trichomes to capture minute amounts of moisture from dew and frequent fogs which provide their major source moisture.

The inflorescence is a spike with a cluster of pink branches and blue flowers. After blooming the plants produce a cluster of offsets at the base of the inflorescence. The plants require bright light, good air movement and little watering in cultivation. Maintain in bright light up to full sun, watering weekly is good but the plants must dry quickly. Do not allow them to remain wet for extended periods. 

A rare, smaller relative of Tillandsia fasciculata from Jamaica, although our specimen sourced from the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (SEL 1986-0480) came from the Dominican Republic via Luis Ariza-Julia. It is unknown where he got the plant. Very narrow, silvery-gray leaves in an upright rosette to about 7 to 8 inches with a multi-branched inflorescence of bright red with light blue flowers. A very attractive, rare, small species.