Tillandsia pohliana is native to South America. It grows in an area including northern Argentina, southern Peru, central and eastern Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. It is found at altitudes between 800 and 1500 meters above sea level.
Tillandsia pohliana, also called as Tillandsia hilaireana, Tillandsia windhausenii, Tillandsia latisepala, is a species of the genus Tillandsia. This species was described by Carl Christian Mez in 1894.
IDENTIFY TILLANDSIA POHLIANA AIR PLANT
Tillandsia pohliana is native to South America. It grows in an area including northern Argentina, southern Peru, central and eastern Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. It is found at altitudes between 800 and 1500 meters above sea level.
It is a medium sized epiphyte (sometimes saxicolous), acaule or caulescent (very short stem) which reaching 20 to 25 cm except flowering with quite numerous, flexible, 20 cm long leaves that form a wide rosette.
This air plant bloom from the simple inflorescence in an ear whose flowers are arranged in a helix. The bracts of the flowering stem are stuck to the stem and are long and scaly. The floral bracts are very broad, oval, pink with orange - red hues, exceeding the flowers at the base of the inflorescence, covered with scales, especially at the level of the apex. The flowers are almost sessile, non-tubular, 2.5 cm long, very beautiful, white. The stamens and pistil are included.
TILLANDSIA POHLIANA 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 pohliana requires a good light and tolerates 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 low to moderate level of humidity. Good aeration is required, the plant must dry quickly (in less than an hour).
Substrate, growing media and repotting:
Tillandsia pohliana can be grow suspended or 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 very bright or sunny situation. Be sure to acclimatize them gradually if you want to grow them in full sun (which is also not essential if the brightness is sufficient). 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.
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