Tillandsia elizabethae
A Mexican Tillandsia with purple flowers. It grows in the barrancas of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Sonora and Chihuahua, and south to Jalisco and Aguascalientes. It lives as an uncommon epiphyte in tropical deciduous forest, often on streamside bald cypress (Taxodium) or on dead limbs, through a long, very dry, bright season and a short summer monsoon. Grow it as a bright, well-ventilated mounted air plant: soak it often in summer and water it sparingly in winter.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe an uncommon epiphyte in tropical deciduous and short-tree thorn forest. It grows on Taxodium mucronatum in stony canyon gallery forest, on dead limbs, and on Acacia cochliacantha. One population in Aguascalientes grows on sheer cliffs. Most of the host trees drop their leaves in the dry season, so plants are well lit for much of the year.
Collections span about 300–2,200 m. Most are from 300–900 m around Álamos (Sonora) and the Chihuahua barrancas, with outliers at 1,800 m in Aguascalientes and about 2,200 m at El Divisadero on the Copper Canyon rim.
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