Bromeliads are beautiful tropical or semitropical plants that possess colorful foliage, beautiful flowers or both. One type, the pineapple, even produces edible fruit. With their many shapes and ...

Some species of euphonias, small colorful birds, even use them as nest sites. When we eat a pineapple, we are enjoying the fruit of the best-known member of the bromeliad family, Ananas comosus.

There are 3,500 types of bromeliads. The most well-known is the pineapple. Other types don’t fruit but generally have flowering stalks that rise 12 to 20 inches from the middle of a rosette of ...

Epiphytes widely misperceived as parasites may actually protect host trees. The ctenid-spider – a bromeliad-specialist. Photo by Edd Hammill. Imagine a plant. Now remove the soil, for it’s not ...

The pineapple is the only bromeliad that can produce edible fruit, according to Better-Gro. Pineapples are most often propagated from another pineapple plant, according to University of Florida ...

So while the Carib's taste for human flesh is doubtful, we do know that the explorer returned to Europe with this succulent fruit. While it was widely coveted, this crop of the tropical bromeliad ...

Visitors can still see a variety of bromeliads at Edison Ford today. Here in Florida, pineapple plants can be grown from the tops of the fruit found in stores, but it takes 18 to 24 months to ...

Even though pineapples are considered a fruit (and a fruit generally comes ... Pineapples are a member of the bromeliad family, which is indigenous to the Americas (mostly South America) but ...

Bromeliad Society of the Palm Beaches Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Mounts Botanical Garden Auditorium, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Info: 561-386-7812; www.bsi.org Tropical Fruit ...

The authors conducted pollination experiments on the relationships of breeding systems, pollination success, flowering phenology, and microhabitat preference in epiphytic orchids and bromeliads in a ...