Tillandsia ionantha variegated Size:Small the female flowers with red

the female flowers with red ovaries

This is a beautiful plant wild collected in Brazil but as yet not positively identified

Bradea 4 (32) but later reassigned to Aechmea in the publication Canistrum: Bromeliads of the Atlantic Forest in 1997

fleshy leaves to three inches tall

comb-like spines in a graceful rosette

Tillandsia ionantha variegated Size:Small the female flowers with redA striking variegated clone of a Guatemalan form of ionantha. This form of ionantha can grow to over two inches tall with a nice upright shape. The plants are typically light green with silvery trichomes and this clone has longitudinal white stripes on the leaves. At anthesis it blushes red on the top leaves with blue flowers. As with most variegated Tillandsias these are slow growing and occasionally there are offsets that are not variegated, but on