Tillandsia intermedia

Tillandsia intermedia is a species found primarily along the Pacific coast and in parts of southern and eastern Mexico. It grows epiphytically in low-lying coastal areas. One of its distinctive characteristics is its viviparous growth, which in tillandsias refers to the production of new off-sets along the flower stalk. This is why it forms large, chain-like clumps that, in nature, create long, striking curtains cascading from trees. Its leaves, a deep green color and whiter at the base due to the presence of trichomes, are somewhat tough to the touch and thick, with an elegant and showy twisted or corkscrew shape, which it uses to twine around trees. It produces a long inflorescence with small, branched, pinkish bracts. Its flowers are purple and tubular.