Billbergia nutans
Friendship plant, Queen's tears, Indoor oats, Air pines
Billbergia Billbergia
B. nutans - B. nutans is a tender, rosette-forming, evergreen perennial with linear, arching, grey-green leaves and slender, pink-bracted stems bearing panicles of pale green flowers with blue margins, dark green tips and rose-pink sepals in summer.
Billbergia nutans is: Evergreen
Arching, Rosette
Flushed pink, Flushed blue, Green in Summer
Grey-green in All seasons
Scale insects Scale insects
Generally disease-free
No pruning required.
Offsets, Seed
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Billbergia nutans (Friendship plant) will reach a height of 0.45m and a spread of 0.3m after 2-5 years.
Conservatory, Indoor, Sub-Tropical
Grow outdoors as an epiphyte or in fertile, sharply-drained soil in a sheltered, frost-free site. Under glass, grow as an epiphyte or in epiphytic bromeliad compost in full light. Keep the centre funnel filled with water.
Loamy, Sandy
Well-drained
Acid, Neutral
Partial Shade
South, East, West
Sheltered
Indoor heated (H1), Tender in frost (H3)
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Billbergia nutans
Friendship plant, Queen's tears, Indoor oats, Air pines
Billbergia Billbergia
B. nutans - B. nutans is a tender, rosette-forming, evergreen perennial with linear, arching, grey-green leaves and slender, pink-bracted stems bearing panicles of pale green flowers with blue margins, dark green tips and rose-pink sepals in summer.
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
Evergreen
Arching, Rosette
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Flushed pink, Flushed blue, Green in Summer
Grey-green in All seasons
Generally disease-free
No pruning required.
Offsets, Seed
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Billbergia nutans (Friendship plant) will reach a height of 0.45m and a spread of 0.3m after 2-5 years.
Conservatory, Indoor, Sub-Tropical
Grow outdoors as an epiphyte or in fertile, sharply-drained soil in a sheltered, frost-free site. Under glass, grow as an epiphyte or in epiphytic bromeliad compost in full light. Keep the centre funnel filled with water.
Loamy, Sandy
Well-drained
Acid, Neutral
Partial Shade
South, East, West
Sheltered
Indoor heated (H1), Tender in frost (H3)
Zone 11, Zone 10, Zone 9, Zone 8
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Soil types: | Loamy, Sandy | Tell us... |
Soil drainage: | Well-drained | Tell us... |
Soil pH: | Acid, Neutral | Tell us... |
Light: | Partial Shade | Tell us... |
Aspect: | South, East, West | Tell us... |
Exposure: | Sheltered | Tell us... |
Hardiness: | Indoor heated (H1), Tender in frost (H3) | Tell us... |
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