Bromeliads

Some bromeliads even form homes for other species of bromeliads.

South Bromeliad Associates: Featuring Jerry Robinson, vice president of Rainforest Flora in Torrance, who will discuss growing bromeliads and how they have affected his life.

They are often found growing alongside Begonias and Bromeliads.

Five hundred and fifty plants including bromeliads, kalanchoes, and ferns were distributed to appreciative employees.

The bromeliads in the trees and the variety of plant life was fascinating.

When the eggs hatch, the frog piggybacks its tadpoles up into trees, placing them in water accumulated within tree holes and bromeliads.

Adaptations Bromeliads are able to live in a vast array of environmental conditions due to their many adaptations.

An epiphytic bromeliad Bromeliad at US Botanic Garden Some bromeliads are faintly scented, while others are heavily perfumed.

Bromeliads also use crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis to create sugars.

Collectors Édouard André was a French collector/explorer whose many discoveries of bromeliads in the Cordilleras of South America would be influential on horticulturists to follow.

Description Bromeliad Bromeliads are plants that are adapted to various climates.

Many bromeliads are able to store water in a structure formed by their tightly-overlapping leaf bases.

Some bromeliads have also developed an adaptation known as the tank habit, which involves them forming a tightly bound structure with their leaves that helps to capture water and nutrients in the absence of a well-developed root system.

Terrestrial bromeliad species have complex root systems that gather water and nutrients, while epiphytic bromeliads only grow hard, wiry roots to attach themselves to trees and rocks.

The inflorescences produced by bromeliads are also regarded as considerably more diverse than any other plant family.

This adaptation allows bromeliads in hot or dry climates to open their stomates at night rather than during the day, which reduces water loss.