Tillandsia Chiapensis

Native distribution and habitat: This species is endemic to Chiapas, Mexico at around 600 m.

Growth habit: Forms a broadly spreading open rosette.

Foliage: This species has beautiful light pinkish-gray soft succulent leaves covered with frosty trichomes. These trichomes which cover the leaves are very pronounced in this species giving it a velvety appearance.

Flowers: The inflated inflorescence also has an indumentum of trichomes that help make the rose colored floral bracts look like cotton candy. The tubular flowers are a deep astor violet. The inflorescence is an inflated, sometimes branched spike which can last in color for over a year!

Pups: The plant can produce a number of pups before and after flowering.

Cultivation: The plant is relatively easy to grow but like many Tillandsias make sure it drys out quickly between watering and that it does not remain wet for long in a cool winter. With the heavy trichome cover treat as a xeric species.

Size: 2 inch approx