Nice indeedy Stan. Your other plant is T. schiedeana.

Gonzer being that Heliconia schiedeana and the Mexican tree fern Cybotium schiedie are native to Mexico, is it safe to deduce, T.schiedeana is also?

"is it safe to deduce, T.schiedeana is also?"
100% Stan. Native to Mexico and the West Indies to Columbia and Venezuela. Named after the collector C.J.W. Scheide.
I have problems with mine sometimes, what're your cultivation secrets? Often I'll get green banding on the new growth instead of the leaves being covered in a white flush of trichomes.

Just full sun on top of the pergola. I havent had a Tillandsia sp. yet sunburn here. They just get more silver up above. I just make sure that they are watered every day of a heatwave..every other day in summer. For some reason-they seem to do a bit better in windy spots.