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Tillandsia ionantha 5 PackThe species ionantha comes from Central America, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. It grows as an epiphyte up in the tree canopies and on scrub bushes. It grows in hot and dry environments and so is well adapted to drought and full sun. Ionantha is from the Greek 'Ion' meaning purple, and 'Anthos' which means flower. When the ionantha's come into their flowering process they color up really well turning fiery red, and then will produce the

stricta soft or hard leaf varieties or stricta var rubra depending on stock

Beginners selection pack number 3

filtered light and regular wetting and drying

This species is easy to grow and eventually makes a nice clump

which makes them very collectible

It is a reliable flowerer (normaly flowering in the summer) It clumps well

Plants throw up pups with varying degrees of variegation

smooth leaves that are covered in fur like trichomes

from Venezuela to Northern Argentina where it grows as an epiphyte in dry to mesic (evenly moist) conditions

Tillandsia ionantha v

ionantha 'Peanut' is a variety of Tillandsia ionantha which comes from Central America

As with most silver leaved species it likes high light levels and regular wetting and drying