Tillandsia arhiza
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Tillandsia arhiza
| Ken Woods, 10/04. |
Peter Tristram, 10/10. |
Peter Tristram's comments from a "Tillnuts" group discussion...
"Those of us who have been around a while will remember the various plants imported as T. arhiza. No doubt many will still carry this name despite their (certain) Brazilian origin whereas T. arhiza is from Paraguay. Broms are very conscious of borders! It is difficult to distinguish between T. paleacea, streptocarpa, arhiza, reichenbachii, graomogulensis (kurt-horstii), etc without provenance, a lot of time, magnifying glass and scalpel and so on, even though thousands of km separate some of these.
The mother load (in cultivation) seems to be at one of the German botanical gardens I visited. I was lucky enough to score a couple of bits. Lots of Lotte’s plants are in this collection. The differences between it and graomogulensis and streptocarpa are fairly obvious (long scape oops stem for one) but to some paleacea forms are less obvious. There is plenty of interesting reading on the Derek's dvd. Note the label on the plant says ‘arhiza var. rupestris’ so that is what I called the images.
Updated 14/11/10
