Talk:Tillandsia

message: I wish I had the time to flesh it all out, but I'm glad to see a pretty good description of a fascinating plant genus.  My parents had specimens of about 20 Tillandsia species in their trees before they were nailed by hurricane Andrew.  Many species are simply fascinating -- just outside my window is a large Tillandsia with a six-foot spike.
But it would be interesting if we could have an entry for ball moss (time limitations preclude me from doing so)...
It is exceptionally common in the southern US -- in southern Florida, it is virtually impossible to find a live oak without ball moss in it.
Ball moss is often found growing on electronic transmission wires in Florida(!), and it is one of the most vigorous of the Tillandsias.  Sometimes its growth is so heavy that tree limbs break under its collective weight.
Also, ball moss has a capability that only a relative handful of plant species has: it fixes nitrogen from the air, like beans and alfalfa.
:I agree it's a good start but I don't like some of it. "Tillandsie [sic] takes many years to flower. With the fruiting the life of the individual species has come to the end. There are still seeds formed, then the mother plant is destroyed" appears to be a poor translation from German. But mostly, I'm going to try to upload a picture... Wastrel Way (talk) Eric
:: I repaired the broken English with known facts. If the source actually says the quote above, the whole thing should be deleted because it is wrong. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric
:: Some sort of issue that wikipedia has with me trying to "hijack" my own account. Ain't got time for that. The picture is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_mIYjxvklqvYW1UbFk3cXVmUzNoYUY0YXhERU5xaFdvWFdz/view Add it to the gallery if you can. It's "T. ionantha in bloom. The yellow pistils and the stamen are clearly visible." At least that's the description I entered twice. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric
::I just might go through and edit the whole mess, because after re-reading it, it has a lot of awkward expressions and contradictory jumping around, e.g "Some are aerophytes, which have a minimal root system and grow on shifting desert soil. Due to the epiphytic way of life of the plants the peculiarity arises that these bulbs [?] do not lie in the ground, but hang in the air on branches." So, desert soil or branches? And that's just the second paragraph. At first look, many references are not readily available, but I think I can fix some of the confusing language without going to the original sources. Wastrel Way (talk) 17:47, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Revising the whole article using the German and other sources was too much, but I got my picture uploaded. Note that there are two pictures now of "T. ionantha" blooming, but the blooms are very different. From an pollinator's point of view, and ecologically, this makes very little sense, and they surely are different species. Wastrel Way (talk) 04:06, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looks like a good start 

message: I just cut all the content of the page and then saved it... Sorry! I thought I was working on the page for Tillansia insignis that I just created about an hour ago, was going to make a redirect to Werauhia insignis, which is the new name for the species. I put the content back, hope it doesn't screw up the history too bad.
Codiferous 02:26, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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message: The legend of the picture says Tillandsia recurvata, but on other Wikipedia pages, like Epiphyte, the same picture is said to show Tillandsia usneoides. I am no expert, so does anyone know if really both are one this picture or if not, which one, so this little confusion can be fixed?
--Globulariifolia (talk) 16:59, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted. I'm not an expert either, but I think the Tillandsia recurvata identification is much more plausible. It isn't a long, dangling plant like T. usneoides. I've taken out the more egregious statements elsewhere, except in the Spanish wiki which is semi-protected. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 17:16, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, thank you.--Globulariifolia (talk) 08:05, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
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