BROMELIACEAE - Pineapple Family
Short-stemmed epiphytes, a few terrestrial
Leaves basal and rosette forming, stiff and spiny
Flowers usually bisexual, actinomorphic,
highly colored and subtended by brightly colored bracts
Fruit a berry, capsule, or multiple
45 genera, 2000 species in tropical America and West Indies
Tillandsia usneoides - Spanish
Moss, occurs throughout S.E. U.S.
Economic uses: pineapple, ornamentals
(greenhouse)
Diagnostic characteristics: epiphyte, stiff leaves, highly-colored flowers
and bracts.
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