Medusa Air Plant Pups

This species is a flowering air plant from the bromeliads family and is one of the most popular of the tillandsia genus.

Medusa air plant pups.

On brighter subjects medusa s head makes an exceptional container plant and it can also be put into gardens so long as it is protected from freezes. This warm and fuzzy looking tillandsia has bright green coloring with hues of purple throughout the base extending up the leaves. The caput medusae air plant is as close as you will get to staring straight at medusa s head without turning to stone. Like all tillandsia these plants will die after blooming.

The growth starts as a swelling at the end of an arm and rapidly grows its own caudex and arms. All you need to do is give each new one its own space and you re set. The caput medusae is a very strange looking specimen that is unlike many indoor plants in looks and how it s grown. Tillandsia caput medusae air plant how to care it grows without a substrate and its snake shaped leaves bring an exotic flair to living rooms.

Once it reaches a certain size a mother plant will produce pups on the ends of older arms. These pups will match the parent plant and can be left to grow on the mount or can be broken off when mature and mounted somewhere else. But before they do they will produce pups. If your air plant appears sick after blooming it s normal.

In their natural habitat they grow on trees epiphyte with a very small amount of roots which help the plant to become established rather than feed or. You can also propagate additional plants any time of the year from its offsets or cuttings.