Tillandsia hitchcockiana EPIPHYTIC CACTUS The shape is an upright

The shape is an upright flaring rosette with numerous leaves with cream colored margins

‘Ensign‘ is boldly candy-striped with pink

an oddity amongst bromeliads

Frasier x ‘Colores’)

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality

Tillandsia hitchcockiana EPIPHYTIC CACTUS The shape is an uprightFormerly Vriesea hitchcockiana, now classified as Tillandsia, hitchcockiana has narrow, stiff leaves in a graceful rosette. The inflorescence is pink, branched and very tall, with lavender flowers. Native from Ecuador to Peru, it is a saxicole or epiphyte in nature. It bears certain similarity to Vr. cereicola but lacks the stoloniferous habit of that species. Tillandsia hitchcockiana and Vriesea cereicola are two species of gray leaved Vrieseas that