What is "bromeliad"

Usage examples of "bromeliad".

Ferns, palms, bromeliads, proteas, orchids, shrubs, vines, cacti, creepers, bulbs and corms and tubers and rhizomes, bonsaied trees.

He stared at Ademos, whose head was turned sideways as though he were fascinated by the bromeliads growing from the trunks of the great figs.

With the other startlingly long arm she pointed into the clump of giant bromeliads directly beneath them.

And fleshy succulents, and bromeliads with pools of water cupped in them.

Orchids and bromeliads furnished splashes of color, as did the three small birds that perched and sang among the foliage.

It would be caught and trapped along the way by expansive bromeliads, enterprising epiphytes, aerial roots, and thirsty fauna.

There were Wandering Jews and bromeliads, ivies and ferns, a Japanese fan palm .

This was not a discovery that warranted any very prolonged seclusion among the plants - an uninteresting set, filicales and bromeliads for the most part - and Stephen moved out into the mainstream, where he almost immediately met Jack, accompanied by an equally tall but far bulkier man in the uniform of the First Foot Guards, a blaze of scarlet and gold.

Like flames in the half-light, the red and pink and soft purple of the orchidlike flowers called Bromeliad graced branches above the trail.

Without him asking, Mae gave up her bridge league and her Wednesday pedicures and took up the mandolin and bromeliads.

The undersides of the leaves were silver and seemed to cast a gentle light, and the branches were filled with violet and magenta bromeliads the size of kettles, making a sweet sharp smell, aswarm with ruby-throated hummingbirds and filled with water where tiny fluorescent frogs and beetles lived.

Seventy-year-old widower Frank Delabano defends the garden of his tract home with mail-ordered bromeliads.