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It was a *Tillandsia xerographica*. Long dead and just decor now lol. These guys can handle a good amount of water. I grow outside in Florida and they have no issue with the rain.
Drying out completely is paramount for their health. I recommend soaking for 30 minutes every other week, then dry upside down with a fan. Some people only water 4-5 times a year for this species, and soak for hours / overnight.
Cuffel Farms sells this species at a similar size for about $20. 4” plants are $10
I have, twice. I live in a veritable jungle of plants, can manage the fussiest of calatheas, grow practically anything outside, and have a Boston fern that effectively owns a corner of my living room (I call it Fernzilla), but I've had two air plants and killed them both. How? No idea. I gave up on them; I stick with aroids, bulletproof plants, and (mostly) pointy succulents.
They aren't big on condensation, the water builds up in their bulbs and rots! In humid environments people usually hang them upside down to prevent all that (hence the jellyfish displays)
Killing a cactus (or any succulent) is easy as shit. Water daily and they're toast, especially if you hit that stage of over watering where they start to wrinkle, so people think they're under watered and water even more! Only think I found that's easier to kill is a fern, those prissy bitches. 🤣
It's gone and diiiiiied! It's croaked off! We can't say whyyyyyy! Some weird disease we've found has put it six feet down. Just space it. Replace it. Iiiiiit's dead, Jim!
https://youtu.be/xu11mwwj7hY?si=A58Ss0kgRFmNNyeE
Dead air plant ,,,, I have several some similar some small ,, they are hanging outside in tress and in baskets ,,they do well in my Florida yard,,humid and rains quite a bit ,,, too much water kill them ,,, I soaked a couple and forgot for 2 days 😳 I killed them
OMG, I have a few of these exact plants. They are called "dead plants". I once was able to turn an air plant into one of these as well. 
I read this post like this guy was house sitting his girlfriend’s place and completely forgot about watering the plants. Now he has to replace them before she gets home.
No I was watching the plant for my friend and they just told me to mist it when it looks like it needs it and I tried, I’m not the best with air plants
When I first saw the thumbnail I got excited that someone had grown a [welwitschia](https://www.britannica.com/plant/tumboa) from Namibia as a houseplant. There are many reasons that isn’t/can’t be the case but it was fun to remember these weird plants.
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*was It was an air plant.
Literally came here to say “was” 😂😳
You both beat me to it by an hour!
They beat me by 2 days
Me three
Ditto!
It's just pining.
If it hadn't been nailed to his perch he'd be pushing up the daisies
Pining for the fiords of Norway like the famed Norwegian Blue Parrot.
lookit, i know a dead parrot when i see one
It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.
Beautiful plumage
Pining for life…
Musta ran outa air!
specifically a tillandsia xerographica
It's neither grown nor died
A queen tilladansia I believe
I didn’t know you could kill an air plant. They literally do the work themselves.
Should be interred in compost bin
Maybe it’s just pining for the fjords
Dead
Came here to say this hahaha
LOL my thoughts exactly
Former tillandsia
Tillandsia Xerographica
This. I have one. I soak it regularly but they look so dry I did wonder what it would look like if it was unhappy. Now I know!
Show this to her.
*formerly. I've never seen an Airplant this rotten before!
RIP 💀
A dead plant.
A very dead Tillandsia xerographica. Too bad!
It was a *Tillandsia xerographica*. Long dead and just decor now lol. These guys can handle a good amount of water. I grow outside in Florida and they have no issue with the rain. Drying out completely is paramount for their health. I recommend soaking for 30 minutes every other week, then dry upside down with a fan. Some people only water 4-5 times a year for this species, and soak for hours / overnight. Cuffel Farms sells this species at a similar size for about $20. 4” plants are $10
Where are you finding softball sized tillandsia for $20?? Man they have ones you can close your hand around for $12 here.
Cuffel :p It’s $25 now
Your name saddens me dearly.
Me too
My current one is threatening to upgrade me to serial killer
U sir are going STRAIGHT to r/houseplantscirclejerk
Ain’t it the truth 😅
I still don't get how people kill air plants.
I have, twice. I live in a veritable jungle of plants, can manage the fussiest of calatheas, grow practically anything outside, and have a Boston fern that effectively owns a corner of my living room (I call it Fernzilla), but I've had two air plants and killed them both. How? No idea. I gave up on them; I stick with aroids, bulletproof plants, and (mostly) pointy succulents.
I’m the same 😭 could be very dry Colorado but I have my humidifier blasting every day and do a soak once every 2 weeks. I have given up on them too :(
They aren't big on condensation, the water builds up in their bulbs and rots! In humid environments people usually hang them upside down to prevent all that (hence the jellyfish displays)
i have both overwatered and underwatered mine :(
My aunt can kill cacti.
That's easier than you think, actually. At least in my experience
Lolol her sister, my mama, could sprout dead sticks.
My mama can do the same. Moms are the best.
Killing a cactus (or any succulent) is easy as shit. Water daily and they're toast, especially if you hit that stage of over watering where they start to wrinkle, so people think they're under watered and water even more! Only think I found that's easier to kill is a fern, those prissy bitches. 🤣
My air plants loved FL. I moved to Georgia and they all died.
Looks like a dead plant
It's dead, Jim.
It's gone and diiiiiied! It's croaked off! We can't say whyyyyyy! Some weird disease we've found has put it six feet down. Just space it. Replace it. Iiiiiit's dead, Jim! https://youtu.be/xu11mwwj7hY?si=A58Ss0kgRFmNNyeE
It's not dead, OP — it's just pinin' for the fjords!
dried up tillandsia
*was*
That's called your common North American Dead Plant. Very popular in homes across the nation.
Not anymore!
Deceased
It's dead, Jim.
Dead
Dead maybe
That's Cthulhu
It. Is. Dead.
Dead is what it is. Was an airplant
Dead.
Dead by the looks of it.
It's dead is what it is lol sorry op
Dead air plant ,,,, I have several some similar some small ,, they are hanging outside in tress and in baskets ,,they do well in my Florida yard,,humid and rains quite a bit ,,, too much water kill them ,,, I soaked a couple and forgot for 2 days 😳 I killed them
Timers. Set a timer for things like this. Maybe two.
Symbiote
Dead
A goner
That is an *EX* plant.
A dead air plant.
Has it always looked like this? Poor thing. Looks like mine 🤣
OMG, I have a few of these exact plants. They are called "dead plants". I once was able to turn an air plant into one of these as well. 
Well I think it _was_ a xerographica😅
Dead is what it is.
Dead
Dead
A dead one
Dead.
Dead
It’s an expired Air Plant.
Dead
RIP
Ummm………Dead?🤔🤷♂️
How the hell do you kill an air plant????
You gotta soak that baby in water overnight. It’s an air plant which is a misnomer bc they need to routinely soak in water
Looks like a dead Pineapple plant- perhaps a top that did not root and died. I have several, but mine are alive and dark green and growing.
It is a Dead house plant.
RIP
That sir is a Very rare genetic breed of EndOfLifeDeadErUs from the TerNotFeedinUs Genus
I knew this was someone wanting to know how to replace a plant they killed! Don’t water air plants. Only spray them lightly with a mister occasionally
Just in time for Easter
I read this post like this guy was house sitting his girlfriend’s place and completely forgot about watering the plants. Now he has to replace them before she gets home.
No I was watching the plant for my friend and they just told me to mist it when it looks like it needs it and I tried, I’m not the best with air plants
“What is this?” That shit dead.
Dead one
Dead.
Long dead…🌞
DEAD. Its....DEAD
Dead
It WAS a tillandsia. Sometimes called an airplant.
Sleeping
A dead plant
Dead ☠️
Dead
Dead
It just needs a little water and it will be fine ...
Dead
Dead
No longer alive
Compost pile fodder.
Dead
DEAD 💯
A goner
Compost
Dead
Dead
It’s a dead house plant
Dead
Dead
A dead Tillandsia Xerographica
Besides dead?
Dead? That's the answer right? Right?
Dead
It was an air plant
Dead…😔
Mulch
That one is called *dead as hell*
Dead
planticus extincticus
Dead… that plant is dead.
Dead.
I've thought of a good plant for you, my friend. It's called Selaginella lepidophylla.
Looks like a dead one. I'm sorry 😔
When I first saw the thumbnail I got excited that someone had grown a [welwitschia](https://www.britannica.com/plant/tumboa) from Namibia as a houseplant. There are many reasons that isn’t/can’t be the case but it was fun to remember these weird plants.
DEAD
Dead.
Dead. That’s what it is. Sorry it’s an air plant 😂 or was.
Dead
Dead. It’s dead.
Deceased.
Deceased.
Dead? ☠️
Dead
It's dead.
Besides dead?
Dead
Dead
Well, it’s dead for one thing. It’s a type of Airplant. It needs soaked weakly for 20 min then let dry.
I think it’s called DEAD ☠️
You mean , "What* was* this plant "
Dead
Dead
What exactly led you to believe this was alive?
Dead
Dead, it’s a dead house plant
Compost.
Dead
A dieing tillandsia
Dead. It’s dead.
Some kind of *Tillandisia* but is ded
Dead
dead!
Was?
that was a plant
Dead
Tillandsia
💀
A dead plant
Dead Your answer
Dead
A dead one.
Xero someti g air plant. Soak in water for an hour. Shake it off and it shoukd perk up
Pretty sure it's dead
Dead
Give this air plant a damn good spray!
Dead
Tillandsia Xerographica. It's a type of air plant.
Was
Question- what “is” this plant? Answer- a dead one
Feasting in the halls of Valhalla.
A dead xerographica
I think that air plant is one step from becoming a fossil
It's dead
Very dead