Tillandsia filifolia is native to Central America and especially from Mexico to Costa Rica. It is found at various altitudes ranging from 0 to just over 2000 meters above sea level.
Tillandsia filifolia is a species of the genus Tillandsia. This species was described by Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal & Adelbert von Chamisso in 1831.
IDENTIFY TILLANDSIA FILIFOILA AIR PLANT
Tillandsia filifolia is native to Central America and especially from Mexico to Costa Rica. It is found at various altitudes ranging from 0 to just over 2000 meters above sea level.
It is a small sized epiphyte acaule (15 cm wide) with many, very fine (hence its name) leaves in rosette. The limbs are green and filiform. The sheaths are broad, very scaly and brown in color. This species forms discards that often grow inside the mother plant.
This air plant bloom from the 5 to 15 cm, bipinnate inflorescence with loose spikes. The floral bracts are usually as long as the petals. The non-fragrant flowers are almost sessile, non-tubular, 2 cm long, almost white to lilac. The stamens and the pistil are exserts.
TILLANDSIA FILIFOILA 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 filifolia requires good brightness, avoiding full sun. Place the plant very close to a window in the winter, preferably outside in partial shade in summer. This pretty little species is easy to grow in the summer, but watch out for leaf drying when grown indoors in the winter.
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 filifolia refer to be mounted on a solid substrate that does not retain water. 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.
Watering:
Two or three times a week in summer, once or twice 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.
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