Tillandsia 'Florida Breeze' purple flower This species lives in the

This species lives in the caatinga of Bahia

very wide leaved rosette to over 30 inches across

A beauty with light green colored leaves that have reduced burgundy colored markings that resemble wet ink that has been smeared

tough leaves that are green with gray trichomes and black

Tillandsia 'Florida Breeze' purple flower This species lives in theA purported natural hybrid from Oaxaca, Mexico of Tillandsia tomasellii x fasciculata v. densispica, though such parentage can only be an educated guess but both suggested parents do live together in the area. A large grower with broad, deeply channeled, tapering, silvery leaves. The shape is an open rosette with the leaves growing in a recurved spiral. The inflorescence is a tall scape, red but made pink by silvery trichomes. The scape bracts are