Accession Data

Tillandsia purpurea

Common Name: Tillandsia purpurea

Family: Bromeliaceae

Country of Origin: Atacama desert / coastal Peru

Description: Native to extremely arid coastal regions, where the plants grow loose and rootless on the desert floor, subsisting largely on a dense fog known locally as camanchaca. The fog nourishes plant communities called lomas formations.

More detail on Lomas Formations can be found at the Andean Botanical Information System website.

Accession Data

Accession #: 199900304

Accession Date: 1999-09-20 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2216

Quantity: 1

Source: Matt Opel

Culture: bright light and occasional misting

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Poales

Family: Bromeliaceae

SubFamily: Tillandsioideae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References

  1. Personal communication with Matt Opel, Sept 20, 1999
  2. Andean Botanical Information System
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 26 February 2015.
  4. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 26 February 2015.

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