Billbergia thrives in bright, indirect light and requires regular watering, ensuring the soil remains slightly moist but not waterlogged. Special care points include maintaining high humidity levels and providing well-draining soil to prevent root rot. Additionally, billbergia benefits from occasional fertilization during its growing season.
Watering schedule: Every week
Sunlight Requirements: Partial sun
| Care Difficulty | Easy |
| Lifespan | Perennial |
| Watering Schedule | Every week |
| Sunlight Requirements | Partial sun |
| Soil Type | Garden Soil |
| Soil pH | 5.5-7 |
| Hardiness Zones |
10-13
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The flaming torch is a popular houseplant for its minimal maintenance. It prefers a warm and humid environment and thrives outdoors in tropical countries such as Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Cuba. You can keep it indoors because partial sun is enough for its growth. Make sure that the room temperature is not lower than -1 ℃ in order to avoid frost damage.
Queen's tears (*Billbergia nutans*) is a bromeliad that is native to South America and is often cultivated as an ornamental houseplant. In its native environment, it grows on other plants, although its shallow root system can also be at home in a pot of soil. Queen's tears produces eye-catching, multicolored flowers of pink, blue, green, and yellow.
Angel's tears is a popular garden bromeliad that combines the frost-tolerance of its parent Billbergia nutans with the large pink flowers of Billbergia decora, its other parent. This is an epiphyte that can grow directly on tree trunks, and it also makes a popular houseplant.
Billbergia 'Muriel Waterman' is a rare cross between horrida v. tigrina and euphemiae v. purpurea. Billbergia 'Muriel Waterman' was developed by bromeliad specialist Mulford B. Foster in 1946, and named in honor of an early bromeliad grower. It has particularly showy foliage and flowers for a bilbergia.
Billbergia zebrina has a bright pink pendulous flower contrasted with silver banding around the leaves, making it stand out against other species in the genus. Its Latin name 'zebrina' is often used in nomenclature to point out stripes as a distinguishing feature of a plant.
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