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Brother Marie-Victorin on the Varadero beach, with his sisters and a friends, 1939
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Leather-leaf tillandsia


Tillandsia variabilis
Bromeliaceae

Species collected in Cuba by Brother Marie-Victorin. Arrived at the Montr?al Botanical Garden on June 3, 1941, as a plant.




Tillandsia variabilis
in the Tropical Rainforests Conservatory.

Photo: Michel Tremblay, JBM

UdeM: E01185FP11484

Marie-Victorin also admired other Tillandsia plants in Cuba.

An epiphytic bromeliad (Tillandsia fasciculata) growing on the lower limb of a Belairia mucronata.


Brother Marie-Victorin and his botanist friend Brother L?on with a Tillandsia rubra plant in the Sierra de Nipe.

UdeM: E0118Album6TillandsiaRubra           
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