Blushing Bride Airplant

Tillandsia ionantha

''Tillandsia ionantha'', the sky plant, is a species in the genus ''Tillandsia''. This species is native to Central America and Mexico. It is also reportedly naturalized in Broward County, Florida.
Blushing Bride Airplant - Tillandsia ionantha Leaves have a reddish blush. It has a gorgeous, purple flower spike when in bloom. Native to Central America and Mexico.

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Appearance

They are acaulescent or sometimes shortly caulescent plants, with a size of 6–8 cm high. The leaves 4–9 cm long; with pods 0.6–1 cm wide, densely patent fabric; narrow triangular sheets, 0.3-0.4 cm wide, dense lepidota indument, foliaceous bracts; compound inflorescence , with 1-3 flowers, primary foliaceous bracts, much longer than the spikes, floral bracts 3 cm long, longer than the sepals and covering them in the anthesis, ecarinated, inconspicuously nervate, glabrous, membranous, sessile flowers; sepals are 2 cm long, free, the posterior carinate, the anterior ecarinated; purple petals. Capsules are 2.5-4.5 cm long.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassMonocots
OrderPoales
FamilyBromeliaceae
GenusTillandsia
SpeciesT. ionantha