Tillandsia bartramii
Bartram's air plant is a clumping, grey-leaved Tillandsia that forms clusters 20–40 cm across of fine, narrow leaves, with small branched spikes of 5–20 flowers. It grows on tree branches in Florida and southern Georgia and in scattered populations in Mexico and Guatemala. It is a fairly tough, bright-light epiphyte that tolerates short cool spells, which makes it one of the easier Tillandsias to grow mounted.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte on the branches and trunks of trees in humid woodland, hammocks and swamps in the south-eastern United States, and in oak and pine-oak forest in Mexico.
In Florida and Georgia it grows near sea level. Mexican records come from mountain states such as Querétaro, Hidalgo, Jalisco and Tamaulipas, probably at mid elevations, but elevations were not checked here.
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