Tillandsia 'Timm's Tribute' AECHMEA heavily scurfed with silver trichomes

heavily scurfed with silver trichomes

As with other species of Hydnophytum

7274 Tillandsia 'Kay Jay'

The spines are huge and very dark and the foliage a dark reddish-silver

Very vividly colored when grow well

Tillandsia 'Timm's Tribute' AECHMEA heavily scurfed with silver trichomesBill Timms hybrid of 'Long John' x seleriana looks somewhat like a Tillandsia pseudobaileyi on steroids! In fact it has pseudobaileyi in the cross as Long John is (pseudobaileyi x intermedia). The plant grows much larger than any parent plant, to 18 inches tall with a thick, bulbous base and slender, terete leaves. The plant bears faint dark stripes on the leaves, reminiscent of the pseudobaileyi but leaves are coated with silvery trichomes giving it