Plants are named Tillandsia, it sounded strange and new to our ears. The name was derived from a doctor in Finland, Elias Tillandsia, which many consider the types of plants. The form of this plant is as weird as his name. There are like a collection of threads dangle down like a beard. No more like leaf pine needles.
This plant is from familli Bromeliaceae (pineapple) live as epiphytes (attached to other plants). Originally from Latin America and some areas of the southern United States. There they were seen to grow facing the sun, stick on various types of cactus, shrubs or trees barbed, surface rocks and cliffs. There is also growing on a gravelly or sandy soil. Tillandsia air plants true, it means obtaining water and nutrients through the air. This all happened because of trichoma maybe, the fine hairs that cover the entire surface body. Through trichoma that water and nutrients are absorbed.
Here is Tillandsia frequently encountered:
Tillandsia usneoides
For the layman, this plant is indeed strange looks. Shaped like a long string that hung down like a beard growing. Because it's no wonder nicknamed "the Ghost beard".
Tillandsia streptocarpa
The kind that is too strange, triangular shaped leaves thin, linear, grows upright when young, but old stretched, with tip curved backwards. At first sight like white, but actually it was the white color trichoma that covers her entire body. Beautiful flowers with purplish blue color, fragrance and can last up to 1 month.
Tillandsia juncea
This species which include much loved people, almost always collected tillandsia fans, because it was sweet to look at, easy to obtain and hold placed outside the home. The leaves are small like a stick. The color combination of bright green, yellow, green, and orange. What is unique is that he is not stemmed, so as to sit directly on the media they are attached.
Tillandsia cacticola
Plants from arid regions of northern Peru is found in the bushes cactus and acacia trees. His figure of a stemless plants, with triangular-shaped leaves are narrow. He forming spreading rosette. As another brother, he grew twisted leaf tip.
Tillandsia filifolia
When viewed from above, like a glimpse of this type filled with needle bearings. His figure is not stemmed. Just visible leaf that suddenly appear with a shape like a needle and arranged to form rosette. Strands of green fern leaves, with a violet stem blurred, because of trichoma spread evenly.
This plant is from familli Bromeliaceae (pineapple) live as epiphytes (attached to other plants). Originally from Latin America and some areas of the southern United States. There they were seen to grow facing the sun, stick on various types of cactus, shrubs or trees barbed, surface rocks and cliffs. There is also growing on a gravelly or sandy soil. Tillandsia air plants true, it means obtaining water and nutrients through the air. This all happened because of trichoma maybe, the fine hairs that cover the entire surface body. Through trichoma that water and nutrients are absorbed.
Here is Tillandsia frequently encountered:
Tillandsia usneoides
For the layman, this plant is indeed strange looks. Shaped like a long string that hung down like a beard growing. Because it's no wonder nicknamed "the Ghost beard".
Tillandsia streptocarpa
The kind that is too strange, triangular shaped leaves thin, linear, grows upright when young, but old stretched, with tip curved backwards. At first sight like white, but actually it was the white color trichoma that covers her entire body. Beautiful flowers with purplish blue color, fragrance and can last up to 1 month.
Tillandsia juncea
This species which include much loved people, almost always collected tillandsia fans, because it was sweet to look at, easy to obtain and hold placed outside the home. The leaves are small like a stick. The color combination of bright green, yellow, green, and orange. What is unique is that he is not stemmed, so as to sit directly on the media they are attached.
Tillandsia cacticola
Plants from arid regions of northern Peru is found in the bushes cactus and acacia trees. His figure of a stemless plants, with triangular-shaped leaves are narrow. He forming spreading rosette. As another brother, he grew twisted leaf tip.
Tillandsia filifolia
When viewed from above, like a glimpse of this type filled with needle bearings. His figure is not stemmed. Just visible leaf that suddenly appear with a shape like a needle and arranged to form rosette. Strands of green fern leaves, with a violet stem blurred, because of trichoma spread evenly.
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