Tillandsia beutelspacheri Size:As-Is the mystery continues

the mystery continues

A very wide crenulated leaved rosette to about 14 inches across that is purplish-red with light green to tan mottling and some silvery crossbands

Resembles Ae

and flowered the first a couple of years back

growing to no more than three feet wide with broad

Tillandsia beutelspacheri Size:As-Is the mystery continuesA beautiful and robust species from Chiapas, Mexico. Similar in some aspects to Tillandsia fasciculata var. fasciculata to which it is certainly closely related, it is maintained as a distinct species nonetheless. Having a bumpy and confused start including a name change by Matuda and being mis assigned to the wrong subfamily by Lyman Smith, it remains a species of taxonomic contention. Found only in the vicinity of Sumidero Canyon, it lives mainly as