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Bromeliad

Tillandsia caput-medusae

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Field Notes

Description:

Apparently a mutualist plant, it has spiky pink petals and firm green leafs, disposed in interesting curving-ways. This is the reason for it's name: medusae

Habitat:

It lives attached to another tree, surrounded by lichen. It uses the tree only as support.

Notes:

Possibly, it has a local name

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)

Looks like a bromeliad more than a bracken fern.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2011

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