Tillandsia sprengeliana
A small, silvery Brazilian Tillandsia (subgenus Anoplophytum) with rosettes of silvery, scaly leaves, pink bracts and dark purple to wine-coloured flowers. Most herbarium records come from the campo rupestre mountains of Bahia's Chapada Diamantina, where it grows on and under bare rock in full sun, and occasionally as an epiphyte in slope forest. Grow it as a bright-light, well-ventilated air plant that dries quickly after watering.
Where it grows wild
Labels describe it growing on and beneath large bare rocks, on conglomerate outcrops in stony and sandy campo rupestre, on rock faces just below summits and on banks, often in full sun. Other records describe it as an occasional epiphyte high on the trunks of slope forest in sheltered valleys, and in riverside forest.
Most records lie between about 1100 m and 2000 m (Pico das Almas, Serra do Rei, Serra do Sincorá); forest-epiphyte records come from about 540-1080 m.
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