A silvery cross of duratii x gardneri. Somewhat caulescent with broad leaves, heavily covered in silvery trichomes and slightly curling at their tips. A purple inflorescence has tightly erect branches and mauve flowers.

Named by Singapore grower Ian Liaw in honor of his wife June Tew. 

A cultivar of (concolor x paucifolia) A smallish plant with few very stiff leaves in an open rosette. The inflorescence is multi-branched, turning pinkish red. A very decorative plant that forms graceful clusters, blooming en masse. 

An interesting cross of kegeliana x rothii for which we have little information. The plant most certainly show strong influence of the rothii parent with an open rosette shape of wide, fairly stiff leaves and a branched inflorescence of inflated branches. The kegeliana doesn’t manifest itself much but definitely makes the plant look a lot different than a pure rothii. The flowers are white.

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A spectacular cross by Steve Correale of (chiapensis x fasciculata ‘Magnificent’) SC. A good blend of the parents; the basic shape of a fasciculata, but with more ‘substance’ and scurffing, like the chiapensis parent. The inflorescence has the shape of the fasciculata, which is an outstanding form native to northern Panama, but is a bit thicker and dusted with the silver thichomes of chiapensis. When well grown, one of the most spectacular of Tillandsias.

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Tillandsia ionantha stricta sport

This plant is a supposed natural hybrid that we sourced many years ago from John Russell. It was presented as (capitata ‘Red’ x jalisco-monticola) which is the opposite of the cross of similar ‘Nellie Rose’ by John Arden. If truly a wild natural hybrid it can’t be known for sure which plant is the parent, but in such cases it is normally listed alphabetically. In any case it appears to be different in some ways from ‘Nellie Rose’ in that it is darker in foliage, more of a red-purple in good light, and the inflorescence is more attenuated and also darker. In general it is a symmetrical rosette of tapering, leathery leaves to about 24 inches across with a spike bearing a capitate head of purplish, glabrous branches and long bracts. A good, tough, hardy plant.

One of the all-time favorite, easy to grow, beautiful Tillandsias, from Chiapas, Mexico. A pinkish-silver plant with wide, leathery, scurfy leaves in a broadly spreading open rosette. Can grow to 18 inches, but usually is much smaller.

The inflorescence, which can last in color for a year, is an inflated, sometimes branched, pink spike. A cliff-dweller from the dramatic canyons of Chiapas, it best kept mounted in bright light, and fed frequently.

Native to the dry woods and scrub of northwest Mexico.

A fairly newly resurrected species related to compressa and fasciculata, native to the State of Veracruz in Mexico. The type locality is near the town of Hidalgotitlán in the seasonally dry, broad leaf forests of the eastern Isthmus of Tehuantepec. A medium sized plant to about 20 inches tall with narrow, tapering leaves in an upright vase shape. The inflorescence is stunning, uprightly branched and bright yellow. An outstanding plant without any special cultural requirements other than typical for Tillandsias.

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Formerly Tillandsia pucarensis this species from Peru is a fairly large plant with semi-soft gray foliage and an erect simple or barely branched pink inflorescence. The narrow leaves form a leafy, upright rosette. This clone came to us from Germany with the accession code of BOE0A456.

A smallish species of Tillandsia that grows on a long stem.  The narrow, stiff leaves are 2 to 3 inches long spaced along the stem and taper to a point.  The overall color is dark purplish with a silvery tint.  The inflorescence is a 2 inch scape with bright pink bracts and flaring blue flowers.  Clumps are easily formed and once a clump forms, the plants can be suspended from a string for cultivation. 

Native to Rio Grande do Sul in Southern Brazil, it has a strong resemblance to T. aeranthos though it must be significantly different enough to deserve species status.  Our plants came originally from the collection of Elton Leme. 

An interesting species from Bahia, Brazil where it grows on exposed rock. Upright growing with narrow, 8 inch long leaves on a caulescent stem. The inflorescence is an erect spike, slightly taller than the foliage, terminating with a cluster of pink bracts and white flowers. A mature plant in bloom can reach 16 inches tall and 8 inches wide. Our plant is descended directly from the type collection by Elton Leme.