Medusa Air Plant Pups

Once it reaches a certain size a mother plant will produce pups on the ends of older arms.

Medusa air plant pups. This warm and fuzzy looking tillandsia has bright green coloring with hues of purple throughout the base extending up the leaves. But before they do they will produce pups. These pups will match the parent plant and can be left to grow on the mount or can be broken off when mature and mounted somewhere else. The epiphytic tillandsia caput medusae is an easy care indoor plant as long as you pay attention to its unorthodox needs.

All you need to do is give each new one its own space and you re set. This species is a flowering air plant from the bromeliads family and is one of the most popular of the tillandsia genus. The tillandsia caput medusae is probably in fitting in because it is an air plant. You give it what it needs and you ll get a delightful plant that will flourish with enough light.

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 caput medusae is a very strange looking specimen that is unlike many indoor plants in looks and how it s grown. You can also propagate additional plants any time of the year from its offsets or cuttings. 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.

The growth starts as a swelling at the end of an arm and rapidly grows its own caudex and arms. If your air plant appears sick after blooming it s normal.