Clustered Wild Pine, Common Wild Pine, Stiff Leaved Wild Pine, Dog Water Drink, Cardinal Airplant

Bromeliaceace

Tillandsia fasciculata grows without discernible stems. The leaves are in a rosette forming a series of cups at their base that can hold water and detritus. The leaves are parallel veined, involute towards the tips, 30-80 cm in length, acuminate to 3 cm wide and are a covered with a wax-like coating.

The actinomorphic flowers, each with a subtending bract, are arranged in a panicle of spikes that is shorter in length than the leaves. The bracts are pinkish red turning yellowish and tightly appressed to the peduncle. There are 3 green unfused sepals in the calyx. There are 3 pinkish-purple petals in the corolla. There are 6 stamens that are longer than the petals. The ovary is superior with 3 locules and numerous seeds. The fruit is a capsule. Each seed has a tuft of hair to assist in dispersal.

T. fasciculata grows in clumps and does not die off after flowering.

Tillandsia fasciculata as an epiphyte or lithophyte in Dry Broadleaf Evergreen Formation- Forest/Shrublands (coppice) with a limestone substrate.

Tillandsia fasciculata occurs throughout the southern and northern island groups of the Bahamian Archipelago, southern Florida, the Caribbean region and Central and South America.

Tillandsia fasciculata has no known medicinal use in the Bahamas.