틸란드시아 '휴스톤'-Tillandsia 'Houston'

틸란드시아 '휴스톤'

Tillandsia 'Houston'

Tillandsia Houston is one of the most popular Tillandsias because it has such a spectacularly colorful bloom. It also grows much larger than either of its parents, T. stricta and T. recurvifolia.

http://www.rainforestflora.com/store/tillandsia/A30910/Houston/

(T. stricta x meridionalis)

http://www.bromeliad.org.au/pictures/Tillandsia/Houston.htm

Tillandsia Houston (stricta x recurvifolia)

Tillandsia Houston is yet another hybrid plant I somehow came to own despite not favouring hybrids, being a cross between T. stricta and T. recurvifolia (formerly known as T. meridionalis).  It is an incredible blend of these two species, taking the best features of both its parents with the resulting hybrid plant being an relatively fast-growing, leafy and beautifully silver-coloured plant.  It takes after its stricta parent, in that it is incredibly leafy and grows in a beautiful rosette shape, while the recurvifolia parent explains its frosty silver appearance.  The plants that I have seen in the local nurseries were normally about 5″ to 6″ across, although I have read of specimens which reach a foot across in diameter!

https://tillandsiaaffair.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/tillandsia-houston-stricta-x-recurvifolia/