Till. streptocarpa "alba" ????

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Till. streptocarpa "alba" ????

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HI folks !
Maybe somebody of you experts out there can help my with this.

TILLANDSIA streptocarpa Baker, 1887 is a well known species to
the most of you.
It is not particulary rare and an easy and robust beginner plant.
Normaly it has blue-purple petals, exept the very rare
var. aureiflora Rauh, 1984 which has yellow flowers.

While browsing thru my brom-collection the other day I noticed,
that one of my streptocarpas, that came in bloom, had pure-white flowers :!:

This speciman was collected in the wild in bolivia, so it´s not "just
another hybrid" from somebodys nursery.

Has anybody ever seen a streptocarpa type like this, or does anybody
know if something like this has ever been published somewhere?
Or is it simply another species ????:scratch

Lookin' forward to your comments..:wink:

THX Timm

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Tim,

It's a bit difficult to tell the morphology of the plant from the picture, but if the flowers are scented I would guess Tillandsia Xiphioides, because the flowers look somewhat elaborated in the petals like Xiphioides rather than plain elliptical.
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Beitrag von Timm Stolten »

Hi barret,

greetz to america and welcome to the forum!!:eclap
Yes, the flowers are scented, but the whole plant really looks like all the
other streptocarpa I have. I am not familiar with all of the flower details,
but xiphioides to me has much bigger petals , especially the length is enormous.
And also their inflorescence really assembles a sword.
But I agree, it is allways hard to tell from a photo........ :ethink
Maybe I really should send this to some botanist to find out.

I posted the same thread in the german forum
http://bromelien.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=127
and Andreas suprised me buy telling that he owns a nearly simular plant
of that species, and that he also owns several white forms of different
Tillandsia species like
Till. aeranthos
Till. ionantha
Till. duratii
Till. stricta
Till. caput-medusae
Till. juncea
Till. peiranoi
Till. yuncharaensis and
Till. brachycaulos

So he ment, that white forms are not as rare as I thought.

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Which part of California you´re from?
What kind of plants are YOU collecting?
(just curious :wink: )

Greetings
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Hi Timm,

White Tillandsia streptocarpa Baker from Bolivia is not rare at all. There is a large population near Comarapa. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish T.streptocarpa from Tillandsia reichenbachii Baker and even the border between Tillandsia duratii Visiani and T.streptocarpa are vague.

I would say T.streptocarpa! :twisted:
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