A snowball that is alive

This plant came with a pup, but the price tag was attached in a way that knocked it free of the mother. I kept it alive for a couple months before losing it to dehydration. These are supposed to make spectacular clumps, so I went on the lookout for another one that was clumping. (see #77).

The plant on the left is tectorum: "Tillandsia tectorum"

This is the Ecuador form–the Peru form is apparently more caulescent.

Check out this time lapse of it drying after getting dunked:

It’s hard to know, but this plant is growing well from what I can tell. It likes a lot of light, and not a lot of water (being the white extreme of the green-white spectrum).