{"id":7311,"date":"2010-05-12T02:22:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T09:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7311"},"modified":"2012-10-07T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T14:28:10","slug":"bromeliads-and-the-pineapple-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/bromeliads-and-the-pineapple-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Bromeliads and the Pineapple Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"guzmania\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4405871357\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4011\/4405871357_28876f7888.jpg\" alt=\"Kew 092\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Pineapple family Bromeliads grow in the tropical and sub-tropical forests of the Americas. There are also hot desert and cool mountain varieties amongst this large family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Are Bromeliads<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> All  3000 + varieties of Bromeliads are composed of a spiral arrangement of leaves sometimes called a rosette.<\/li>\n<li> There are Terrestrial (soil grown plants) and Epiphytic species  growing on other plants and trees.<\/li>\n<li> They are slow and hard to bring into flower generally only flowering once. After flowering they produce offsets called &#8216;Pups&#8217; from which new plants will grow.<\/li>\n<li> The green, leafy top of a pineapple is  a pup that may be removed and planted to start a new plant.<\/li>\n<li> Flowers are generally central spikes held away from the plants or short with the flower nestled in the centre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4406723206\/\" title=\"Bromeliad \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2679\/4406723206_1c15655953.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Bromeliad\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Popular Groups of Bromeliads<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Guzmania have long lasting red bracts and like humid conditions<\/li>\n<li> Vreiesea are probably the most freely available plants with over-lapping bracts producing a sword shape.<\/li>\n<li> Tillandsia and air plants are epiphytic Bromeliands.<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li> Billbergia is one of the easiest Bromeliads to grow indoors.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/house-greenhouse-plants\/gardeners-foliage-houseplants-top-dozen\/\">Cryptanthus<\/a> or Earth Stars are grown for coloured foliage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Neoregelia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4405871525\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2697\/4405871525_867836dd7c.jpg\" alt=\"Kew 094\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bromeliad International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsi.org\/\">society<\/a> has many pictures and further information for the specialist and hobby grower.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bromeliad Species<\/strong> on show  in the Big Easy New Orleans 19th World Bromeliad Conference<br \/>\nAechmea<br \/>\nAlcantarea<br \/>\nAnanas<br \/>\nAndrolepis<br \/>\nAraeococcus<br \/>\nAyensua<br \/>\nBrewcaria<br \/>\nBrocchinia<br \/>\nBromelia<br \/>\nCanistropsis<br \/>\nCanistrum<br \/>\nCatopsis<br \/>\nConnellia<br \/>\nCottendorfia<br \/>\nDeinacanthon<br \/>\nDeuterocohnia<br \/>\nDisteganthus<br \/>\nDyckia<br \/>\nEdmundoa<br \/>\nEncholirium<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14399\">Fascicularia<\/a><br \/>\nFernseea<br \/>\nFosterella<br \/>\nGlomeropitcairnia<br \/>\nGreigia<br \/>\nHechtia<br \/>\nHohenbergia<br \/>\nHohenbergiopsis<br \/>\nLindmania<br \/>\nLymania<br \/>\nMezobromelia<br \/>\nNavia<br \/>\nNeoglaziovia<br \/>\nNeoregelia<br \/>\nNidularium<br \/>\nOchagavia<br \/>\nOrthophytum<br \/>\nPepinia<br \/>\nPitcairnia<br \/>\nPortea<br \/>\nPseudaechmea<br \/>\nPseudananas<br \/>\nPuya<br \/>\nQuesnelia<br \/>\nRacinaea<br \/>\nRonnbergia<br \/>\nSteyerbromelia<br \/>\nUrsulaea<br \/>\nWerauhia<br \/>\nWittrockia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Pineapple family Bromeliads grow in the tropical and sub-tropical forests of the Americas. There are also hot desert and cool mountain varieties amongst this large family. What Are Bromeliads All 3000 + varieties of Bromeliads are composed of a spiral arrangement of leaves sometimes called a rosette. There are Terrestrial (soil grown plants) and Epiphytic species growing on other plants and trees. They are slow and hard to bring into flower generally only flowering once. After flowering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/bromeliads-and-the-pineapple-family\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,45],"tags":[106,71],"class_list":["post-7311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floristry-house-greenhouse-plants","category-house-greenhouse-plants","tag-exotic","tag-houseplant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}