Tillandsia elizabethae Vriesea scalaris rubra From Mexico and Central America

From Mexico and Central America Tillandsia caput-medusae is a striking species with lovely soft green leaves with purple edges to the lower leaves or sheaths

Here is one large size pup

red leaves with lots of bands and the odd stripe

This is an evolutionary trait that enables the plants to move up and grow ahead of the shifting sands

Tillandsia elizabethae Vriesea scalaris rubra From Mexico and Central AmericaA very rarely offered species. From Mexico where it endures a hot, sunny and dry environment. It is rare in the wild and in cultivation. Tillandsia elizabethae has nice soft, silver fairly stiff leaves. It produces a nice long pink flower spike with purple tubular flowers. Medium sized plants available.