Tillandsia Bayonet (tricolor x chiapensis)
Tillandsia Bayonet (tricolor x chiapensis)

Tillandsia Bayonet (tricolor x chiapensis)

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Origins: Created by Pam Koide

Bloom: Short, simple or compound inflorescence producing a single or multiple pink to salmon colored bracts and purple tubular flowers (more mature plants typically produce multiple spikes, younger plants typically only produce one)

Light: Strong indirect light or filtered light

Water: Spray or dunk twice a week, allow to dry within 6-8 hours.  Soak monthly to rehydrate up to 4 hours as necessary, be sure to thoroughly dry after soaking

 

This is an interesting cross to me because tricolor has a softer, waxier leaf and chiapensis has a very scurfy leaf densely covered in trichomes.  The leaves of their progeny are semi lepidote (kind of fuzzy), long and thin like tricolor, and they gently recurve as they get longer.  Reverse cross of T. Dagger