Tillandsia tovarensis SEEDS

Tillandsia tovarensis seeds grow into an epiphytic bromeliad native to the wet tropical biome of Venezuela specifically from the Colonia Tovar area and surrounding Andean cloud forests of the coastal cordillera of Venezuela. The epithet tovarensis means ‘of Tovar’, naming it after the Colonia Tovar, a 19th-century German-Venezuelan settlement in the Venezuelan Andes west of Caracas. Distinguished by large, pure white flowers white flowers are rare in Tillandsia. A member of subfamily Tillandsioideae forming an epiphytic rosette in the humid mountain forests of the Venezuelan Andes. Family Bromeliaceae.

Bright indirect light; high humidity; epiphytic (bark or cork); cool to warm tropical Andean conditions of the Venezuelan coastal cordillera.

• ‘Tovarensis’ = of Tovar; named after Colonia Tovar, German-Venezuelan settlement near Caracas
• Pure white flowers rare and prized white colour in the Tillandsia genus
• Venezuela (Colonia Tovar area) wet tropical biome; coastal cordillera cloud forests
• Epiphytic; humidity-loving; subfamily Tillandsioideae; Venezuelan endemic
• Bright indirect light; high humidity; epiphytic; cool to warm; Family Bromeliaceae

Tillandsia tovarensis is the white-flowered Tovar tillandsia named after a fascinating 19th-century German colony in the Venezuelan Andes, producing rare pure white flowers that make it one of the most prized collector’s epiphytes among Venezuelan Tillandsia species.

IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.