Tillandsia toropiensis VIPP 1-6-20 The grass green leaves are

The grass green leaves are moderately wide and are generously adorned in about 80% gold scurf along their entire length and to the very edge of the leaf margins

widely spaced spines

Hard to explain but uniquely beautiful

This new plant is a compact shaped

Tillandsia toropiensis VIPP 1-6-20 The grass green leaves areA handsome, slender growing, clump forming species from Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil. Described by Prof. Dr. Werner Rauh in 1984. A lithophyte, growing with several species of cacti, orchids and other bromeliad species. The foliage is silvery lepidote, slender, in a loose upright rosette with an inflorescence about a long as the leaves, un branched, with light red bracts and open white flowers. Individual plants reach about 8 inches tall.