West Indian Tufted Airplant (Guzmania monostachia)
This distant relative to the pineapple is endangered in the wild in North America. Confined to a few remaining counties in locations far out into the Florida Everglades and Puerto Rico, it is listed as a threatened species. Major concerns for this species are habitat loss and an invasive exotic weevil (Metamazius callizona) found in South Florida that kills it. Luckily this species is also native to Brazil, Venezuela and Bolivia, where populations are more stable. This one was photographed in SW Florida's Fakahatchee Strand. Look closely and you will see it sharing a limb with native zig-zag orchid (Epidendrum rigidum) in this submerged pond apple tree.
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- © 2011
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America, Angiosperms, Bromeliaceae, Bromeliales, Catopsis, Commelinids, Fuchs’ bromeliad, G. monostachia, Guzmania, Guzmania monostachia, Liliopsida, Magnoliophyta, Monocot, Monocots, Plantae, Poales, Renealmia monostachia, Spermatophyta, Tillandsia monostachia, Tillandsioideae, Tracheobionta, USA, United States, West Indian Tufted Airplant, Zingiberidae, air plant, airplant, beautiful, beauty, botany, bromeliad, endangered, epiphyte, epiphytic, flora, green, natural, nature, plant, rare, spring, tank bromeliad, threatened, tropical
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- Bromeliads, Bromeliads
