I was introduced to Air Plants by a dear friend and coworker a couple of months ago. The one she gave to me then is cute and small and I have named him Simon. She went to visit family in Tennessee a week ago and I asked her to bring me two more when she went to Gatlinburg. This is one of the two she brought to me. Isn't she lovely. Sarah told me that this variety of of air plant may only bloom once every ten years. But she also said it might also keep its bloom for up to a year. Well, here's hoping for I think Miriam is just beautiful!
Tillandsia is a genus of around 540 species in the Bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae), found in the forests, mountains, and deserts, of Central and South America, and Mexico and the southern United States in North America. Tillandsia recurvata and another Bromeliaceae species on electric wires near San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela Flowering Tillandsia and daughter plant The thinner-leafed varieties grow in rainy areas and the thick-leafed varieties in areas more subject to drought. Moisture and nutrients are gathered from the air (dust, decaying leaves and insect matter) through structures on the leaves called trichomes. Tillandsia species are epiphytes (also called aerophytes or air plants) – i.e. they normally grow without soil while attached to other plants. Epiphytes are not parasitic, depending on the host only for support. The genus Tillandsia was named by Carolus Linnaeus after the Swedish physician and botanist Dr. Elias Tillandz (originally Tillander) (1640-1693).
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