One frequently overheard comments at markets and plant shows when people walk past our stand are; ‘Oh those are those airplants, they live just on air’. This Friday we will explain why this isn’t really the case.Tilllandsias (airplants) are a genus of plants from the Bromeliaceae family; what makes them...
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Viviparous Tillandsias
True vivipary- where an embryo develops within the fruit and grows to a size before dispersal, such as mangrove, occasionally tomatoes. Pseudovivipary- plants produce plantlets in the place of sexual reproductive structures. This is asexual reproduction. This is really the correct term for what Tillandsias do. For Tillandsias the term...
To Split or not to Split!
One of the many fabulous things about Tillandsias is that they produce pups, baby plants that offset from the mother, often after flowering, that increase in size rapidly compared to seedlings. After flowering the parent plant will gradually dis back and the pups will take over, some plants only produce...