Definition of bromeliad
: any of the chiefly tropical American usually epiphytic plants comprising the pineapple family and including Spanish moss and various ornamentals
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A major source of standing water is the bromeliad, a common decorative plant that looks like the top of a pineapple.
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A: Bromeliads aren’t fussy and seem to be happy overflowing their containers.
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The World of Avatar is filled with plants from Pandora, woven amid the bromeliads, ferns, agave and other real-life plants.
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Tropical bromeliads, orchids, spathiphyllum, aluminum plants and dracaena like the shady sites.
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He is concerned that growing tourism infrastructure in central Chile could threaten the insects' homes, as well as many native plants, including P. venusta, a bromeliad that's considered vulnerable to extinction.
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They team found that these cockroaches emerge at dusk to eat pollen from many native plant species, including evening primrose, and lay their eggs, or ootecae, only on a genus of bromeliad plants called Puya.
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Divide African violets, bromeliads and orchids. 84.
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High in the misty mountains of Honduras, the world looks primeval, with glistening pine trees draped in moss and leafy bromeliads.
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Origin and Etymology of bromeliad
New Latin Bromelia, genus of tropical American plants, from Olaf Bromelius †1705 Swedish botanist
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