Bartram's Airplant Flower

Title

Bartram's Airplant Flower

Artist

Paul Rebmann

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

A close up photograph of the inflorescence of Bartram's airplant - Tillandsia bartramii.

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All Natural Beauty of this World

This airplant is named for the early botanical explorer William Bartram who traveled the southeastern United States several times,first with his father John, and later on his own. William went on to write and publish his famous book: Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, etc..
Bartram's airplant is frequently found in hammocks of the Florida peninsula from just north of Lake Okeechobee to the Suwannee River and from Jefferson County to Gulf County in the panhandle. Tillandsia bartramii can also be found in Georgia, South Carolina and Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Bartram's airplant is an epiphyte, anchoring itself on trees with its wiry roots, but not deriving any nutrition from the tree, unlike a parasite. It is and evergreen herb forming dense clusters of stiff, spreading leaves on the branches and trunks of trees. The needle-like leaves are covered with pinkish-gray scales, with a widened triangular base, and are 15-40 cm (6-16 in.) long. The flowers appear in spring and summer at the end of 8-15cm (3-6 in.) long stalks ending in rose-red overlapping bracts, with 5-20 flowers emerging from the bracts. The corolla is narrow and tubular, made up of three violet petals.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)

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September 27th, 2016

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