Gouda 2011c (Article) Tillandsia

Tillandsia spiraliflora in Blüte im Botanischen Garten Utrecht Tillandsia spiraliflora flowering in the Utrecht Botanic Garden

Author(s):—E.J. Gouda

Publication:—Die Bromelie 2011(3): 97,108-109. (2011)

Abstract:—Several years ago we obtained a Tillandsia spiraliflora (Rauh 1976) from Timm Stolten, Botanic Garden Heidelberg. The plants in Heidelberg grew too large to have them all inside the greenhouses in winter. Because of its size you would not see this species of Tillandsia in many collections. It forms a large cinereous rosette that resembles T. marnierlapostollei Rauh (1973) from Ecuador, but this species is from the Rio Marañon area above Balsas, Amazonas, Peru.