Tillandsia capitata is known from Mexico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. This species grows in evergreen and deciduous forests. It has been collected from exposed limestone cliffs on mountain slopes, from vertical igneous rock slopes and canyons and along riverbanks at elevations of 100-2200 meters.
Tillandsia capitata, also called as Tillandsia tephrophylla, is a species of the genus Tillandsia. This species was described by August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach in 1886.
IDENTIFY TILLANDSIA CAPITATA AIR PLANT
Tillandsia capitata is known from Mexico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. This species grows in evergreen and deciduous forests. It has been collected from exposed limestone cliffs on mountain slopes, from vertical igneous rock slopes and canyons and along riverbanks at elevations of 100-2200 meters.
It is an epiphytic and saxicolous, which reaching 50 cm in size, with densely rosulate, curved, greyish light green leaves that are equaling or exceeding the inflorescence when extended, densely and coarsely pale-appressed-lepidote throughout and form a rosette. In case of strong luminosity (especially when the plant is not accustomed to it) the foliage can take a slightly yellowish color.
This air plant blooms from the depauperate-compound or pseudo-simple and polystichous-flowered, densely capitate, ellipsoid, 4-7 cm long inflorescence. The primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts but with very short blades, much exceeding the axillary spikes; The spikes sessile, ovate, densely 1-5-flowered with 1 or 2 sterile bracts at the base, complanate. The floral bracts ovate, acute, to 35 mm long, equaling the sepals, carinate, chartaceous, lepidote at least toward the apex. The flowers are subsessile, tubular, 4 cm long, dark purple in color. Sepals lance-oblong, acute, glabrous or nearly so, membrenaceous, carinate and short-connate posteriorly; Petals tubular-erect, narrow, 35-50 mm long, blue.
TILLANDSIA CAPITATA AIR PLANT CARE AND CULTURE
Cultural information should only be used as a guide, and should be to be adapted to suit you. Your physical location; where you grow your plants, how much time you have to devote to their care, and many other factors, will need to be taken into account. Only then can you decide on the cultural methods that best suit you and your plants.
Light:
Tillandsia capitata requires good light and enjoys full sun (avoid the afternoon in summer if the plant is young or has not been used).
Temperature:
The required temperature ranging from 10 to 32°C. Get it early enough in the fall if you grow it outside, so that it does not face night temperatures below 4 or 5 ° C, especially if it is wet. The plants can faced temperatures close to 0 ° C (sheltered and dry) for a few hours without damage.
Humidity:
This air plant need the moderate level of humidity. Good aeration is required, the plant must dry quickly (in less than an hour).
Substrate, growing media and repotting:
Tillandsia capitata refer to be mounted on a solid substrate that does not retain water. Place the plant very close to a window indoors in the winter and preferably outside the summer in a sunny situation. You can glue the plant directly to the surface with a strong adhesive, or you can wire the plant to the base. Don't cover the base of the plant with moss or it may rot. It can be grown on almost any imaginable decorative mount, including shells, rocks, slate, driftwood, etc. Group them in decorative clumps for maximum effect.
Watering:
Twice a week in summer, once a week in winter according to the luminosity and the ambient humidity. Obviously when it rains and if you grow it outside, it counts as a watering.
Fertilizer:
This air plant can be fertilized with the moderate doses. 1 to 2 times a month in the summer and 1 time a month in the winter.
Can you please clarify if tallindsa capitata peach and maroon are cultivars of capitata or individual species
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