How To Use Bromelia In A Sentence
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Members of the Bromeliaceae pineapple family are particularly successful here, especially in the genera Cottendorfia, Navia, and Brocchinia.
Canaima National Park, Venezuela
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Of 3,003 species of flowering plants recorded from Jamaica, 830 (28%) are endemic; of 579 fern species 82 (14%) are endemic; and within the Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae, both of which are richly represented on Jamaica, endemism is 31%.
Jamaican dry forests
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Fritz Müller has also found, among the bromelia leaves, a small frog bearing its eggs on its back, and having some other peculiarities of structure.
Darwinism (1889)
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The first orchids were large terrestrial plants, but like bromeliads, orchids took to the trees, where they have diversified to become the largest family of flowering plants.
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Members of the Bromeliaceae (pineapple family) are particularly successful here, especially in the genera Cottendorfia, Navia, and Brocchinia.
Tepuis
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Tree ferns and palms such as Geonoma appuniana and Euterpe caatinga grow well and Bromeliaceae and Eriocaulaceae grow in the understorey (Castillo, 2005; Sears, 2001b).
Canaima National Park, Venezuela
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Dry heat, common in most houses during the winter, is fine for cactus and succulents, but it's tough on tropicals such as African violets, bromeliads, and orchids.
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We conclude that leaf physiology has a greater impact on plant carbon gain than leaf and plant morphology in this epiphytic bromeliad.
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So toss the foil wrap that adorns their pots and pair them with colorful bromeliads, caladiums, or ivy to dress an entry or tabletop.
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We looked in the direction of Margaret's cubicle, but all we could see were potted palms, bromeliads, ivies, lilies, cacti- - and they were all vibrating.
Invasive Species
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It is believed that the transmission of this species from one tree to another must be effected by the young crustacea, which are very minute, clinging to beetles, many of which, both terrestrial and aquatic, also inhabit the bromelia leaves; and as some water-beetles are known to frequent the sea, it is perhaps by these means that the first emigrants established themselves in this strange new abode.
Darwinism (1889)
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Where else can you grow bromeliads and orchids outside by simply hanging them in trees?
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Many succulents possess CAM, as do semisucculents such as some yuccas, epiphytic (growing on trees or rocks) orchids, and xerophytic (arid-adapted) bromeliads.
Adaptations of desert plants
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Two Heliamphoras pulchella and minor ‘Chiamanta’, two pots of Utricularia nelumbifolia, a bromeliad that has a utric plantlet in it, and a sundew:
Mennonites, those Goth kids, and al Qaeda
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The Serra do Mar mountain range defines this ecoregion with montane forests of Bromeliaceae, Myrtaceae, Melastomataceae, and Lauraceae species.
Serra do Mar coastal forests
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Miller also offers a variety of tropical plants, including bromeliads, bougainvillea, citrus, hibiscus, and orchids.
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What sets this ecoregion apart from other portions of the Brazilian Atlantic forests are large portions of montane forests with their richness of Bromeliaceae, Myrtaceae, Melastomataceae, and Lauraceae species.
Serra do Mar coastal forests
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Flowering epiphytes - bromeliads, orchids and cacti - are presented most commonly.
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The plants that he uses include ferns, bromeliads, orchids and palm trees.
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This is characterised by low trees with thin trunks, with many bromeliad and orchid epiphytes; it grows on sandy nutrient-poor soils and averages 108 plant species per hectare campinarana or Rio Negro caatinga, a tall dry shrub-woodland mosaic restricted to the Rio Negro region which grows primarily in well drained uplands.
Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil
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Some genera endemic to this district include Quelchia, a shrubby genus of the sunflower family; Connellia, in the Bromeliaceae; and Tepuia, in the Ericaceae (blueberry family).
Tepuis
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Many CAM families, i.e. Cactaceae, Crassu laceae, Euphorbiaceae, Agavaceae, Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae, are frequently found on inselbergs in the palaeotropics and the neotropics.
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Many succulents possess CAM, as do semisucculents such as some yuccas, epiphytic (growing on trees or rocks) orchids, and xerophytic (arid-adapted) bromeliads.
Adaptations of desert plants
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Similarly, other potted flowering plants, including anthuriums and bromeliads, are becoming important.
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This plant, a bromelia, is of the same genus as the _Agave Americana_, and by travellers often confounded with the latter, though quite a distinct plant from the _maguey_ of cultivation.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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Both nature and hybridisers have crossed different generic species and hybrids to cultivate bigeneric bromeliads, since the plants arrived on this planet.
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Scads of petunias, lobelia, fancy begonias and geraniums, sweet potato vines, even a bromeliad.
Garden Goddess for Hire
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Only a few epiphyte ferns, orchids and bromeliads have been studied genetically.
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Tree ferns and palms such as Geonoma appuniana and Euterpe caatinga grow well and Bromeliaceae and Eriocaulaceae grow in the understorey (Castillo, 2005; Sears, 2001b).
Canaima National Park, Venezuela
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For instance, the Ecological Reserve of Macaé de Cima (72 kilometers (km) 2) contains 229 species of Bromeliaceae, 73 of Melastomataceae, 51 of Rubiaceae, 47 of Myrtaceae, and 44 of Lauraceae.
Serra do Mar coastal forests
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One of the most esteemed qualities of this bromelia is the cauterising property of its juice -- well known to the natives of the Mexican table-land, and to the Peruvians, where several species are found of like virtues.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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That lovely grey wispy curtain plant is a cousin of the other well-known and beloved bromeliad, the pineapple.
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Do you leads equivocally and nonsynchronous hirudinean that you see aboral anointing convivially, and can hyalospongiae, from the zoanthropy phylliform, a awake bromeliaceae?
Rational Review
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There, house plants such as schefflera are trees, and orchids and bromeliads serve as understory plantings, and it seemed to me that there were plants flowering everywhere.
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The epiphytes hanging from the tree branches are either bromeliads or orchids.
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There were also blow-pipes hung up, and quivers and bags made of the bromelia, very elaborately worked.
On the Banks of the Amazon
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Bamboos, ferns, bromeliads, epiphytes and orchids will all thrive in this microclimate.
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Of special interest are the bromeliads that grow on trunks and along branches of big trees.
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But in the species inhabiting bromelia leaves there is no need for swimming, and accordingly we find the tarsi entirely bare.
Darwinism (1889)
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Bromeliads, aroids, and orchids all have numerous species which live in the tops of tropical trees.
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Where else can you grow bromeliads and orchids outside by simply hanging them in trees?
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Miller also offers a variety of tropical plants, including bromeliads, bougainvillea, citrus, hibiscus, and orchids.
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The plants that he uses include ferns, bromeliads, orchids and palm trees.
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Flowering epiphytes - bromeliads, orchids and cacti - are presented most commonly.
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The couple has since added bromeliads, gardenia, ginger, hibiscus, other tropical plants, and a fountain to the atrium.
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A survey of nine additional species, representing the four major taxonomic groups of vascular epiphytes (orchids, bromeliads, aroids, and ferns), answered the first question.
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Large pine-apples are there found of a delicious flavour; that species of bromelia always grows solitary among the gramina, like our Colchicum autumnale, while the B. karatas, another species of the same genus, is a social plant, like our whortleberries and heaths.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Vines of the largest size, creepers, aroids, and bromeliads and more than 150 orchid species are part of the epiphytic realm that grows over the giant trees.
Magdalena-Urabá moist forests
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Rotate showy plants, such as orchids, begonias, and bromeliads, into your garden for color all year.
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The eastern district is delimited by the distribution of the endemic treelet Bonnetia roraimae; some genera endemic to this district include Quelchia, a shrubby member of the sunflower family, Connellia, in the Bromeliaceae, and Tepuia in the Ericaceae.
Canaima National Park, Venezuela
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From this vegetable root hung the mournful _bromelia_, sometimes drooping down to the very surface of the water, so as to sweep our faces and shoulders as we passed under it.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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It also offers a variety of tropical plants, including bromeliads, bougainvillea, citrus, hibiscus, and orchids.
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The film captures monkeys in the Nariva wetlands, golden tree frogs housed in bromeliad plants and blue-backed manakins in Tobago.
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Certain plants such as orchids and some varieties of bromeliads will do best in mediums made especially for them.
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Together with epiphytic herbaceous communities (orquedeae, bromeliaceae, cacti, and mosses), and rhodophytes, the mangroves form complex forests responsible for providing a physical buffer against sea swells and winds on the coast, purifying the salt in marine breezes, enriching the coastal profile and producing soil recovery.
Manabí mangroves
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We have found some of the best developed epiphytic bromeliads with large showy flowers there, and at least two species of mistletoes.
Peace and beauty - roaming the hills around Morelia
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Two Heliamphoras pulchella and minor ‘Chiamanta’, two pots of Utricularia nelumbifolia, a bromeliad that has a utric plantlet in it, and a sundew:
Mennonites, those Goth kids, and al Qaeda
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Müller, Dr. Fritz, on inhabitants of bromelia leaves, 118 on butterfly, deceived by its mimic, 245 his explanation of mimicry among protected genera, 252
Darwinism (1889)
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The vegetation consists of succulent plants, cacti and terrestrial bromeliads, with thorny trees and bushes hitched to a sandy soil.
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Several beautiful little aquatic plants of the genus Utricularia or bladder-wort also inhabit bromelia leaves; and these send runners out to neighbouring plants and thus spread themselves with great rapidity.
Darwinism (1889)
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It has been shown recently for members of all major epiphyte groups (orchids, bromeliads, aroids, and ferns) that photosynthetic capacity is a function of plant size.
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Similarly, other potted flowering plants, including anthuriums and bromeliads, are becoming important.
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Born's view of the big epiphytic bromeliad several meters down the vine was unobstructed.
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