The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Tillandsia (To the species and varieties)

To the species and varieties described on pp. 42-6, the following should now be added:

T. foliosa (leafy). fl. violet, produced in an ample panicle; bracts reddish. Mexico. A fine plant.

T. Furstenbergii (Furstenberg's). fl., spikes erect, furnished with lanceolate, rosy bracts, dusted over with whitish meal. l. tufted, glaucous, linear-lanceolate, finely toothed, dilated at base. 1882. Acaulescent. The correct name of this plant is Streptocalyx Furstenbergi. T. Pastuchoffiana (Pastuchoff's) l. broad, recurved, acuminate, clear, shining green, irregularly marked with a mosaic pattern of dark green lines. Brazil, 1885. Allied to T. fenestralis.

T. retroflexa (bent-back). fl. yellow, with green tips, spreading, distichous; bracts scarlet; scape scarlet, pendulous, bearing ten to fifteen flowers. 1885. This garden hybrid resembles T. scalaris in habit, but is stouter.

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