AIR PLANTS (TILLANDSIAS)
Tillandsia ixioides x tenuifolia
2741
A small plant with grayish silver leaves in an upright rosette. It is clustering and has a short scape with bright pink bracts and yellowish flowers.
Tillandsia 'Ready For Liftoff'
1613
A Paul Isley hybrid of balbisiana x exserta.
Tillandsia flabellata 'Giant Red' x concolor
5046
Tillandsia pseudomicans
3980
Tillandsia werdermannii
1967
This Peruvian plant has silver leaves with a fragrant plum-colored inflorescence.
**Plants budded since 09/16/2024**
Tillandsia balbisiana Florida
2597
Tillandsia balbisiana The Florida form of this wide ranging species that occurs from Florida, the Caribbean down through Mexico and Central America and Northern South America. The Florida form tends to grow in open woods and cypress swamps from twigs in the full sun to shaded hammocks. An elongated bulbous base formed by the leaves that constrict before flaring out to an open but few leaved rosette. The inflorescence is tall, branched and lacquer red. An easy and rewarding species to grow.
Tillandsia 'Jes'
7933
A pretty hybrid by Paul Isley of brachycaulos x exserta.
Tillandsia 'Kybong'
3720
Tillandsia 'Kybong' (stricta x ixioides)
Tillandsia jequiensis
1341
Tillandsia 'Chickasaw Bill'
4961
This Tillandsia came to our collection from the late Bill Soerries collection after his passing in 2013. There are several without names and some that have defied identification. This plant is one of those. It's an obvious hybrid with Til. ionantha, but with what? We don't know for sure. It has a short but branched inflorescence. It does not seem to match anything in the BSI Cultivar Registry.
Tillandsia 'Chickasaw Bill' (Til. ionantha x ?) The name is to honor Bill Soerries, who used to run the famous Chickasaw Club in Columbus, Georgia.
Pending registration.
Tillandsia stricta Hard Leaf
319
An all-time favorite from Brazil is about 6 inches across in a leafy rosette with stiff gray-green leaves. It produces a stunning blue-flowered, plume-shaped pink inflorescence in the summer. In nature this plant can be found growing on the restinga sands of beach dunes and in trees in the foothills of the Atlantic Range in Brazil.