Stricta Air Plant

We select from the gigante and black beauty cultivars which stand alone on a shelf or in glass as a centerpiece but can also easily fit into a terrarium or be mounted to wood or cork.

Stricta air plant. When it comes to indoor plant care air plants tillandsia are supposed to be some of the easiest. Tillandsia stricta is an air plant variety that is commonly crossed with other popular varieties of air plants to produce vigorous beautiful hybrids. Elizabeth has thin wispy strands of hair in a beautiful pale green color. Tillandsia stricta is an evergreen clump forming short stemmed perennial with leaves arranged into thick.

Take your air plant out of the box as soon as your air plant arrives. Follow the easy steps in the air plant care guide included to get started. This variety of tillandsia is usually a rich dark green color and is a very hearty plant making it great for terrariums and other semi enclosed displays. Tillandsia usneoides or spanish moss differs from other air plants in that the leaves hang rather than sprout up.

Sky plants often bloom bright flowers toward the end of their life. For starters they don t even need soil absorbing water and nutrients through scales on their leaves in the wild they survive just hanging onto the bark of trees and whatnot catching whatever bit of rain and bird poop that comes their way. The various stricta hybrids are usually prized for their show stopping blooms. Elizabeth s strands grow long and outward in every which way.

Tillandsia ionantha also known as the sky plant is a bromeliad plant. Tillandsia stricta stiff purple is a water loving air plant that is very easy to care for. The tillandsia stricta is an air plant that is native to trinidad brazil venezuela paraguay uruguay guyana and northern argentina. This means that it grows in a tropical climate and has a short stem.

Tillandsia stricta upright air plant common names. As the stricta air plant matures the thick leaves begin to interweave creating an almost bush like appearance. The tillandsia stricta air plant is known for its bright pink flowers and deep green to purple densely clustered leaves. Meet elizabeth the stricta air plant.

Johanna silver november 1 2017 updated july 19 2020. This air plant is able to grow on sand dunes as well as in trees so you can imagine how many different climates it can survive in. This species has a wide native range.