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A broad leaved species, in full sun it colours bright red, or in this case, peach. The species comes from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. During the summer it has suddenly produced a spectacular and long lasting flower spike . Unfortunately, the parent rosette will now die. Cold weather has accelerated the decay of the parent rosette and I am hoping that it will still manage to produce some offsets. Andy's Airplants says: "Tillandsia capitata 'Peach' is a variety of T. capitata from Mexico. It colours up a lovely peach colour during its flowering stage and produces purple flowers. It can be grown in high light levels or full sun with regular misting and quick drying." Derek Butcher writes in Bromeliads in Australia: "Now to phase 2 where a plant had been circulating as T. capitata 'Peach' also from the early 1990’s and which originated from Bird Rock Tropicals in California as T030. Originally this was collected in Mexico. This was not registered. Meanwhile there was plant collected in Guatemala which was also called T. capitata 'Peach'. We do not know who gave it that name but we do know it is being sold in Florida under this name. The plant does have leaves that have that furry covering like a Peach which is also shared by ‘Rio Hondo’ but the plant is smaller. Because we do not know the source of either plant we can only surmise they are closely related." |
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| 4th April 2007 | ||
