Planting and Caring for Bromeliads - TvAgro by Juan Gonzalo Angel

Twitter @juangangel Program: 1.1.13.11 BROMELIAD. They are terrestrial, herbaceous, lithophytic plants that grow on rocks or are epiphytes that develop on trees, cacti, etc. They are acaulescent to shortly caulescent, rhizomatous or stoloniferous; hermaphrodite plants. The leaves are rosette-shaped and usually stemless, thickly armed. The inflorescence is sessile or scapiferous, pinnate or fasciculate-composite (simple), sublaxly elongated to subcapitate; the sepals are free or rarely connate; the petals are free, fleshy; the stamens are connate; the ovary is inferior or superior. The fruit is a berry; the seeds are appendage-free.2 Vegetative reduction is characteristic of some species, where the plant body lacks a stem, for example, the hay plant Tillandsia usneoides. They exhibit several morphological characteristics that are almost unique to the family, such as the development of a "tank"-like structure formed by the overlapping of leaf bases, where rainwater and organic matter accumulate, creating a habitat for insects and arachnids, as well as frogs, and serving as a food source for other vertebrates. Another strategy almost unique to the family is the presence of grayish peltate leaf trichomes in species that inhabit extremely dry habitats with high solar radiation. Source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelia Juan Gonzalo Angel www.tvagro.tv