Tillandsia ixioides
A silvery, grey-leaved atmospheric Tillandsia from Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina, grown for its yellow flowers and parent of several cultivars. It lives on trees in the seasonally dry forests of the Andean foothills and Chaco, and in cultivation it wants bright light, strong airflow, frequent drying and a drier winter.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte on trees in seasonally dry forest and woodland. GBIF records cluster in the Andean foothill valleys of Tucumán, Salta, Jujuy and Catamarca in north-west Argentina, where subtropical montane forest meets dry Chaco woodland. Detailed habitat descriptions were not found in the sources available here.
Records carry no elevation; the Argentine localities (such as San Pedro de Colalao, Tafà Viejo, Salta and Jujuy) lie roughly 500–1,500 m.
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