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BROMELIADS
Bromeliads
are a huge family of fabulously diverse members who all seem
to be pretty tolerant of their environments and
care. There are few fussy family members in the troupe. They
live in trees or on the ground, they live with care or no care
and
they
are
pretty much unassuming until blossom time comes. Then they prove
their superb
worth. Blossoms are everything from simply beautiful to bizarrely
appealing and most of them last a while so you can puzzle over
what you feel about them. I came later in life to my appreciation
for
bromeliads
and I'm very glad I didn't miss it.
I
just read an article recommending these as the perfect houseplant
as they are "hard to kill." I don't find that a very appealing
end for a plant that is so interesting. In addition once the
plant has bloomed, it will shrivel and another will slowly take
its place. That's not an attractive proposition so most bromeliads
will find their way to the trash, also not an attractive proposition. |
Billbergia
distachia (no common name yet)
Benefits:
From: Brazil
Photographed: In the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney,
Australia, 2013.
Planting and Care: Moderate to bright light and a warm damp
climate should do the trick.
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2013
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Blushing Bromeliad, Crimson
Cup, Marbled Fingernail, Ossifragi
Vase, Miniature Marble Plant Aregelia Neoregelia 'Flandria'
From: Brazil
and Columbia
Photographed: In the Botanical Garden at
the Hotel Atitlan at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
Text
and Photograph Copyrighted ©GreenGardeningCookingCuring.com
2013
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Concentric
Bromeliad Neoregelia concentrica
Benefits:
From: This plant is native to Brazil
Photographed: In
the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia, in 2013.
Planting and Care:
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2014
A
very interesting and understandable short article about
this plant can be found here,
http://umaine.edu/littlefieldgarden/home/plants-in-the-greenhouse/neoregelia-concentrica/ |
Photographed: In
the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia, in 2013.
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Photographed: In
the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia, in 2013.
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Photographed: In
the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia, in 2013.
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Ehlers
Air Plant Tillandsia harrisi
From: Guatemala
Photographed: In the Botanical Garden in
Naples, Italy.
Photograph
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Flaming
Sword Vriesea splendens
From: Venezuela and French Guiana
Photographed: In the Botanical Garden
at the Hotel Atitlan at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
Text
and Photograph Copyrighted ©KO 2010
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Guzmania Guzmania
'Sunnytime'
This
is a hybrid Guzmania apparently produced in Belgium.
From:
Planting and Care: This is a warm climate plant that will do well in
the shade with a hefty dose of fertilizer, especially potassium. Keep it moist
in a well drained soil most of the year; in cool months keep it drier.
Photograph
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Nidularium
fulgens
Photographed: In
the Botanic Garden in Wellington, New Zealand.
Photograph
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2013
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Pitcairnia
SP.
Apparently, this is a large family of bromeliads and like many cactus
I've encountered they have no common names except perhaps very locally where
they are native. It seems there is still very much to learn about our
world.
Benefits:
From: Peru
Photographed: In
the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia, in 2013.
Planting and Care: Pitcairnia is
a ground grower like many I've encountered. It likes a
warm climate, freedom from mid day sun and now and then water.
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2014 |
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Silver
Vase, Silver King Aechmea fasciata
The gray/green stippled foliage of this plant makes
it appealing the year around. When it blooms, it is spectacular.
From: Brazil
Planting and Care: This bromeliad likes strong
diffuse light and warm, but not hot temperatures. Keep it reasonably
moist. Buy a plant that is close to the size you want because
it is a slow grower and will take a long time to "fill in."
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and Photographs Copyrighted ©KO 2010 and
GreenGardeningCookingCuring.com 2014 |
Photographed: At
the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center in Rhode Island
in 2013.
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Photographed: Growing
in the Royal Botanical Garden in Sydney, Australia, in 2013.
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Photographed: In
the dining room at the Hotel Atitlan on Lake Atitlan in
Guatemala, in 2010.
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Tillandia
grandis No common name
Benefits:
From: Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras
Photographed: In the Botanical Garden in Naples, Italy, in 2014.
Planting and Care:
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Wittrockia
variegata
Benefits:
From:
Photographed: In the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia,
in 2013.
Planting and Care:
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Puya,
Chilean Puya, Sheep-eating plant, Chagual Puya Chilensis
This is a bromeliad, a little bit creepy bromeliad as it protects itself
by hooking predators, even animals as large as sheep, on its sharp spine.
As the animal dies and degrades, it provides nutrients to the Puya. Hence,
I think it's a bit creepy.
Benefits:
From: Chile
Photographed: In
the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney Australia in 2013.
Planting and Care: Dry and arid places
are home to this unusual plant.
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2015
With
my appreciation, my #38 plant mystery was identified
by Peter from Auckland, New Zealand. |
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BELOW
ARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BROMELIADS WHOSE NAMES ARE UNKNOWN TO ME |
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Bromeliad Mystery #4
Photographed: In the Botanical Garden at the Hotel Atitlan at Lake
Atitlan in Guatemala.
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Bromeliad Mystery #4a
Photographed: In the Botanical Garden at the Hotel Atitlan at Lake
Atitlan in Guatemala.
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Bromeliad Mystery #4b
Photographed: In the Botanical Garden
at the Hotel Atitlan at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
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Bromeliad Mystery #7 Below
I don't think I ever appreciated the peculiar beauty of bromeliads
until living in the Caribbean with a huge gone back to the jungle garden.
The plants below were flourishing with no care at all at the back corner
of the property growing on a heap of rocks interspersed with weeds
under complete shade. When I finally got to them and moved them into
a more hospitable place, look what happened. How could you not love
a plant that will do this for you? We had several
of these lovely plants growing in what was our shady terrace
garden.
When we sold the property, I wish I could
have taken them with us.
Photographed: In the terrace garden at our former
home in Montserrat.
Planting and Care: These
plants prefer a semi to a fully shady place in the garden and they
like an acid soil or a nook that collects rain and old leaves set
somewhere in a large tree.
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2008 and GreenGardeningCookingCuring.com 2014 |
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Bromeliad Mystery #10
Photographed: In
the Botanical Garden at the Hotel Atitlan at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
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2013
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Bromeliad Mystery #11
Photographed: In the Carlos
Thays Botanical Garden in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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2013
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Bromeliad Mystery #12
Photographed: At
the Hotel Regis in Panajachel at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
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2013
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Bromeliad Mystery #13 and #13a
Photographed: At
the Hotel Regis in Panajachel at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
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2013
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Bromeliad Mystery #14 and #14a
Photographed: At
the Hotel Regis in Panajachel at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
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2013
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Bromeliad Mystery #17
Photographed: At
the Winter Garden in Auckland, New Zealand.
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2013
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Bromeliad Mystery #26
Photographed: At
the Botanic Garden in Wellington, New Zealand.
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2013
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Bromeliad Mystery #44
Photographed: At
the Jardin Botanique in Tahiti.
Text and Photograph Copyrighted ©GreenGardeningCookingCuring.com
2013
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Too.
Bromeliad Mystery #55
Photographed: In
the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia, in 2013.
Photograph Copyrighted ©GreenGardeningCookingCuring.com
2013
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