Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Natural habitat, colony in bloom on Pine Tree
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Natural habitat, individual plant in bloom
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Growing on citrus trees in bloom
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Getting ready to bloom on citrus trees
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Natural Habitat, plant in bloom
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Young and mature plant( green seedpods)
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Bulbose shaed base of the plant
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Young plant
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Mature plant with long leaves
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Shape of the leaves
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Shape of the leaves- deeply channeled
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Base of the inflorescence and the leaves turn red/pink before blooming
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Shape of the base and pups
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Base color changes depends on the maturity and amount of light
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Base of the plant and root system
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Base of a younger plant
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Juvenile plants have still very green appearance even at the base
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Root system- wiry strong roots
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Flower spike - flower bracts change color right before blooming
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Flowers
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Flower bracts protecting flowers- pink or bright red
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Tillandsia_bulbosa (9 of 27)
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Flower spike changes the color before bloom
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Tillandsia_bulbosa (7 of 27)
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Flower spike has very visible trichomes( hairs)
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Seepods- capsule shaped
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Seedpods opening up
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Seeds dispersal
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Colony consisting of mature plants and young plants
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Younger and older plant with root system