Tillandsia schiedeana is native to Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Venezuela, and Colombia. It grows in open tropical forests, and saxicolous, growing on cacti and bursera species on steep dry slopes in semiarid regions at elevations from 0 to just over 1750 meters above sea level.
Tillandsia schiedeana, also called as Tillandsia vestita, Tillandsia flavescens, Tillandsia grisebachii, Tillandsia eggersii, is a species of the genus Tillandsia. This species was described by Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel in 1841.
IDENTIFY TILLANDSIA SCHIEDEANA AIR PLANT
Tillandsia schiedeana is native to Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Venezuela, and Colombia. It grows in open tropical forests, and saxicolous, growing on cacti and bursera species on steep dry slopes in semiarid regions at elevations from 0 to just over 1750 meters above sea level.
It is a medium sized epiphyte, caulescent species which tends to be very variable in form with few, elongated, thick, polystic leaves and arranged almost perpendicularly around the stem. The sheaths are thick, imbricate, in the prolongation of the limb which is fine and triangular.
This air plant blooms from the simple, usually distichous inflorescence, with an elongated and dense spike. The bracts of the flowering stem are imbricate, similar to the leaves, sometimes pinkish. The floral bracts are nested and pink or red. The flowers are sessile, tubular, 3 to 5 cm long. The color of the petals varies from yellow to orange. The stamens and the pistil are exserts.
TILLANDSIA SCHIEDEANA 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 schiedeana requires good light, avoiding full sun in the summer afternoon. This species does not like the direct sun too much, especially if the atmosphere is dry. Grow it to half shade if you grow it outside in the summer.
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 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 schiedeana refer to be mounted on a solid substrate that does not retain water. Place the plant very close to a window indoors in winter and preferably out in mid-shade in the summer. 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:
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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