Gouda 2023a (Article) Tillandsia

Notes on Tillandsia pedicellata

Author(s):—E.J. Gouda

Publication:—Journal of the Bromeliad Society 72(2): 81. (2023)

Abstract:—This form grows very well for me, has sessile flowers and stays sessile in fruit (Figure 2 seedling). In Figure 3 you can see the peduncle of the fruiting flowers (not focused). Technically it is not a pedicel, but a scape or peduncle, a pedicel is always in the axil of a the floral bract, and in the case of T. pedicellata, the floral bract and flower is lifted from the plant by an elongating peduncle (in this case you can call it a scape because it is bractless and bearing one flower). A more hard leaved and more succulent leaved form that has sessile brown or blue flowers is growing a stalk after anthesis (Figure 1), same behavior you can see in Tillandsia aizoides too! That form is very difficult for me to keep alive, even at the botanic garden.