Tillandsia hamaleana is native to Ecuador and northern Peru. It usually grows epiphytic at altitudes between 0 and 2000 meters above sea level.
Tillandsia hamaleana, also called as Tillandsia nubis, Tillandsia platypetala, Wallisia hamaleana, is a species of the genus Tillandsia. This species was described by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren in 1870.
IDENTIFY TILLANDSIA HAMALEANA AIR PLANT
Tillandsia hamaleana is native to Ecuador and northern Peru. It usually grows epiphytic at altitudes between 0 and 2000 meters above sea level.
It is a medium-sized (35 to 40 cm) epiphytic (sometimes saxicolous) acaule species with few, thin, very supple, light green leaves in a tight rosette. The sheaths are an extension of the limbus which is often twisted at the apex.
This air plant bloom from the quite large (may exceed 40 cm) inflorescence composed of small ears with about ten flowers. The primary bracts are reddish and scaly. The floral bracts are slightly curved at the apex, brownish green and almost hairless. The very fragrant flowers are large (3 cm in diameter), non-tubular, bluish purple or purplish, with white center. The stamens and pistil are included.
TILLANDSIA HAMALEANA 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 hamaleana requires good brightness. Like all species with little scales, it can not stand the direct sun in summer. Place the plant very close to a window inside. If you decide to grow it outdoors (not recommended), do it in half-shade.
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 10 ° C, especially if it is wet.
Humidity:
This air plant need the moderate to high level of humidity. Good aeration is required, the plant must dry quickly (in less than an hour).
Substrate, growing media and repotting:
Tillandsia hamaleana can be grow in pot or mounted as epiphyte on a solid substrate that does not retain water. It is often sold in pots but it is possible to deposit it to cultivate epiphyte on a piece of wood for example. 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:
If the plant is grow as epiphyte, water every day, summer like winter. The arrangement of the leaves in a tight rosette indicates that it must be watered in the heart, even if it is grown in a pot (do not let water stagnate in the heart at the beginning of flowering, so as not to drown the inflorescence when it does not emerge from the rosette yet). Change the water of the heart once every 2 or 3 days. Although epiphyte, this species is often sold in pot. It is not useless in this case to slightly wet the root ball but do not do it every day, you could rot the base of the plant (just hold the clod slightly wet).
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.
Does tillandsia Hamaleana bloom MULTIPLE times in it's life? It does it bloom just one time, then die---- like a regular, tillandsia?
ReplyDeleteIt blooms just one time, then die like all others Tillandsia.
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