Tillandsia andreana is found growing on rocks and cliff faces at elevations of 250-1500 meters above sea level. It is rare in its native habitat...
Tillandsia andreana, also called as Tillandsia funckiana, Tillandsia funckiana var. recurvifolia, is a species of the genus. This species was described by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren ex Éduard-François André in 1888.
IDENTIFY TILLANDSIA ANDREANA
Tillandsia andreana is native from Colombia to NW. Venezuela. It is found growing on rocks and cliff faces at elevations of 250-1500 meters above sea level. It is rare in its native habitat.
It is an epiphyte with a clumping growth form and has a rounded shape, growing up to 10 cm wide. The plant varying from the typically stemless phase to long-caulescent. The leaves are erect to recurved, linear, filiform-attenuate, 1-2 mm wide, strongly keeled below with an acuminate apex and are arranged in a spiral with distinct, triangular-ovate, ca 5 mm long sheaths.
This airplant blooms from the terminal inflorescence that consisting of a single flower or rarely two. The flowers are red and just before it flowers, the tips of its leaves will blush red. Sepals elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 15 mm long, chartaceous, even, glabrous, free; petals erect but more or less recurving at apex, slightly asymmetric as in Pitcairnia, to 44 mm long, red; stamens and pistil exserted.
TILLANDSIA ANDREANA CARE
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 andreana requires good brightness, avoiding full sun. Place the plant very close to a window indoors in winter and preferably out in mid-shade 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 airplant 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 andreana 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:
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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