NOUN
- large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses
How To Use Tillandsia In A Sentence
- Tillandsia is an epiphyte, a plant that derives its nutrients not from where it is planted but from the air. The Memory Palace
- Examples of this are certain aeoniums like A. nobilis, A. tabulaeforme, Agave victoria-regina, some large rosulate tillandsias, navelworts, etc.
- _cyprieres_, draped with the silvery _tillandsia_, form a background to the picture with all the grandeur of the pyrogenous granite! The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West