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Tillandsia fasciculata

Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

Tillandsia species are epiphytes (also called aerophytes or air plants) – ie they normally grow without soil while attached to other plants). Epiphytes are not parasitic, depending on the host only for support.

Habitat:

rainforest

Notes:

These Tillandsias are blooming on the trunk of a huge tree at the Mayan ruins of Copan. The second photo is the inside of the tree they were growing on, it's completely hollow.

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Looks like Tillandsia fasciculata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillandsia_fasciculata

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