Bromeliad Cultivar Register (8310) --

*TILLANDSIA ‘Tom Thumb’*	Cathcart*	<1991
cv. of latifolia - Tropiflora said, "The smallest form we know - barely one inch tall - when blooming produces another plantlet from its minute inflorescence - this enables the desert resident plant to stay on top the shifting sands which would otherwise bury the plants".
Seed Parent: latifolia
CargoRpt#2-2; #7-1, NewTillHdbk66ill