This is a large-growing form of one of the most beautiful of all fragrant flowered Tillandsias. Reaching 8 or more with stiff, thickly succulent, dark grayish-green leaves, in a loose, few leaved rosette. The inflorescence is a feather-shaped spike bearing a series of really large ruffled, white, deeply fragrant flowers. The fragrance is similar to that of a gardenia. This rare form comes from Bolivia.

This Tillandsia is a Bird Rock Tropicals hybrid, still unnamed as far as we can ascertain. A complex cross of [compressa x (capitata 'Peach' x fasciculata)] it has an open rosette shape with many stiff, silvery leaves to about twenty inches long forming a 30-inch rosette.

The inflorescence is a tight head of fat branches, glossy pinkish-red though we suspect our first bloom was not in fullest potential color. Flowers blue.

This is a commercial mix that we at Tropiflora have custom made 50 yards at a time. We use this formula because #1 it works for us and #2 it is economical.

Anyone can mix their own potting media and we encourage you to do so in order to best suit your needs. However, if you wish to use our proven mix, we are more than happy to oblige!

Here is the formulation:

• 30% Canadian Peat
• 30% Green Bark
• 30% Hardwood Chips
• 10% Perlite (though this can vary with availability of materials).

It also includes 3 pounds of minor elements per yard and has a pH level of 6.0 to 6.5.  This mix allows good air access to the root zone, good moisture retention without getting soggy, long pot life, and good substance for holding plants upright.

Note: A one quarter cubic foot bag of soil should fill about half a dozen 6 inch Azalea Pots.

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Black shirts are a cool, 100% polyester - perfect for working outside on your plants.

Green and Gray shirts are 100% cotton.

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.

An interesting and rare plant from the exposed granite cliffs at the entrance to Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Resembling the much more familiar Vr. saundersii, it is smaller, about 6 inches across, with deeply recurving, broad, leathery leaves that are heavily speckled with red below and sparingly above. The inflorescence is a panicle of dense yellow branches on a 12 inch scape.

A neat miniature, stoloniferous, clumping species that matures at less than 6 inches tall. Its gracefully curving, slightly speckled leaves form a bulbous base and a 10 inch flower spike with light red, white tipped bracts. Discovered near Parati in Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil and described in 1980, it is a native of low, wet rainforest where it grows as an epiphyte. An easy to grow yet rare collector item. Superior for terrariums.

This Brazilian beauty is a splendid foliage plant with wide light green leaves, finely lineated and reticulated with green and spotted with red. The shape is a full, open rosette to over 24 inches with leaves that gracefully curl down toward their tips. Even though it reaches a large size, young plants are great for terrariums.

*Ready for an 8-inch pot

A Brazilian native with wide, thick, leathery leaves in a 15 inch, recurving rosette. An unusual gray-blue color, speckled with tiny red dots and bearing an interesting, branched, yellow inflorescence produced in winter make this an attractive species. In spite of the gray, thick leaves, it is a shade grower in nature, living on granite rock cliff faces inside the mountainous Tijuca forest of Rio de Janeiro. A slow grower, excellent for terrariums when small.

A Australian bi-generic hybrid by Paul Borland. The parentage is Dyckia Cherry Coke x Deuterocohnia brevispicata. The thick leaves are narrow, recurving, thick and blood red in color with distinct red spines. The reverse side of the leaves is scurfed greyish white. Grows to 16 inches across.

NO HOLDING - MUST SHIP IMMEDIATELY

xPitchnia (Deuterocohnia longipetala 'Silver' x Pitcairnia burle-marxii) is a bi-generic hybrid made at Tropiflora. Spineless silver green arching leaves. Grows to 24 inches tall and 24 inches across. We are offering plants in 6 inch pots. Some of the leaf tips have been trimmed.

NO HOLDING - MUST SHIP IMMEDIATELY