Medusa Air Plant Pups

You can also propagate additional plants any time of the year from its offsets or cuttings.

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. All you need to do is give each new one its own space and you re set. But before they do they will produce pups. This warm and fuzzy looking tillandsia has bright green coloring with hues of purple throughout the base extending up the leaves.

If your air plant appears sick after blooming it s normal. Once it reaches a certain size a mother plant will produce pups on the ends of older arms. The tillandsia caput medusae is probably in fitting in because it is an air plant. 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.

The growth starts as a swelling at the end of an arm and rapidly grows its own caudex and arms. This species is a flowering air plant from the bromeliads family and is one of the most popular of the tillandsia genus. 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. Like all tillandsia these plants will die after blooming.

The epiphytic tillandsia caput medusae is an easy care indoor plant as long as you pay attention to its unorthodox needs. The caput medusae is a very strange looking specimen that is unlike many indoor plants in looks and how it s grown.