A pretty plant from Peru with greyish-green leaves and a single stem that bears pink flowers.

This Peruvian plant has silver leaves with a fragrant plum-colored inflorescence.

A pretty hybrid by Paul Isley of brachycaulos x exserta.

*Blooming photo provided by Paul Isley from the the Bromeliad Cultivar Registry.

A silvery caulescent lithophyte from Brazil with long, densely leafed stems that form large pending clusters on the granite rocks. Lightly fragrant purple flowers.

An all-time favorite from Brazil is about 6 inches across in a leafy rosette with stiff gray-green leaves. It produces a stunning blue-flowered, plume-shaped pink inflorescence in the summer. In nature this plant can be found growing on the restinga sands of beach dunes and in trees in the foothills of the Atlantic Range in Brazil.

Tillandsia beutelspacheri x chiapensis hybrid by Pam Koide Hyatt.

A handsome medium sized species that grows on a long stem in the manner of some forms of straminea, latifolia and others. In fact, when not in bloom, this species could easily be mistaken for the Mexican species albida. The stem is stiff and erect, to almost 12 inches, bearing 3 inch white leaves at right angles to the stem. The inflorescence sets it apart; a scape to about 6 inches tall with pale green to whitish bracts and starkly pure white flowers. Discovered in 1969 by Braga and Sucre growing on the huge rock monolith called Pedra Paraibuna near the border of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais where this species grows in a massive colony. So taken were they with the large white flowers that they named the plant nuptialis because it reminded them of the white of a wedding gown.  Grows easily in bright, airy conditions.

Tillandsia 'Tandur' (ixioides x stricta)

Our stock originated from Mitch Rabin of Living Colors Nursery and selected out over many years by Tropiflora grower Veronica Orozco.

Our expert tillandsia grower spotted this clone mixed in with our very first batch of Tillandsia 'Eric Knobloch' and has been growing it, aside, for years. We finally separated it from the named hybrid and gave it it's own name. This clone of brachycaulos x streptophylla is darker and more purple and just slightly smaller in size. An open rosette of light green, curling, silvery dusted leaves form a somewhat bulbous base. An inflorescence that has long, dark lavender blushing bracts and a tight cluster of violet branches rises about 5 inches above the foliage. A handsome, easy to grow and prolific plant.