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Air Plants
Tillandsia fasciculata
14.9361, -88.8647
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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