Any tillandsia experts?

[Ray]

Just about to bring in my "epiphyte tree" for the winter when I noticed inflorescences on the tillies.

Fat, pink bracts and white blossoms.

[estación seca]

Looks like Tillandsia stricta, perhaps the Tropiflora clone 'Cotton Candy'.

[Leafmite]

Beautiful! I am finding that some of them are fragrant. At times I detect a lovely, spicy, unusual fragrance and their blooms are the only possible source for the fragrance.
I gave up trying to identify mine. Most were carefully labeled when I bought them but once I mounted them on the wreath, I forgot which where which. They are pretty cool plants, though.


Here is an entire thread on them:

Tillandsia House Air Plants Lichens

[signin1234]

Pink inflorescence with white flowers makes me think this could be Tillandsia "Houston", which is a T. stricta hybrid. But I'm not an expert.

[estación seca]

There are online photo galleries of Tillandsias that make it fairly easy to identify plants, if you're willing to go through lots of pages. Most of the fragrant ones have blue flowers, and most of the ones with blue flowers are fragrant. Tropiflora has photos of almost everything they've sold, but you need to type the correct name into the search box to get the photo.

Some of the commoner fragrant, blue-flowered ones are duratii, mallemontii, paleacea, purpurea, straminea, streptocarpa.

Spanish moss (T. usneoides) has tiny fragrant green flowers. T. crocata has fragrant, bright yellow flowers.

All the plants I've mentioned are easy to grow with correct conditions.

[DirtyCoconuts]

ES, what isn’t easy to grow in the right conditions?

[estación seca]

Rafflesia.

[wisdomseeker]

Agree with the ID being some variety of T.stricta.

Your tree definitely has some healthy, good looking growth.

[DirtyCoconuts]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Rafflesia.