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- Welcome to the colorful kingdom of the most beautiful Bromeliad species
- Guzmania - classic with leaf rosette and wintry flowering time
- Tillandsia - potted plants with exotic charm
- Billbergia enchants with filigree play of colors
- Ornamental pineapple creates an exotic ambience
- Vriesea - flowers like a blazing sword
- Tips
The Vriesea splendens delights with its long inflorescences
Welcome to the colorful kingdom of the most beautiful Bromeliad species
Fancy a cheerful and colorful houseplant with modest demands on care? Then browse here in a selection of popular bromeliads among more than 3,000 species that provide a good mood in living and office space.
Guzmania - classic with leaf rosette and wintry flowering time
The genus of Guzmania convinces with more than 200 species and countless varieties. All have in common the growth with a magnificent leaf rosette from which a colorful, majestic inflorescence rises in late winter. Here are some of the most popular types:
Tillandsia - potted plants with exotic charm
This genus has the largest number of bromeliads, some of which are excellent for cultivation as a houseplant. First and foremost, we recommend the carnation (Tillandsia cyanea), which presents itself in spring and summer with blue flowers and pink bracts.
Billbergia enchants with filigree play of colors
The genus and its species are known to the gardener under the name Zimmergris. The cisterns Bromelien bribe with delicate inflorescences, which provide from October to January for color on the wintry sill. Not only are they easy to care for, they also proliferate with many natives after the flowering season.
Ornamental pineapple creates an exotic ambience
The ornamental pineapple comfort us with beautiful species that she does not give us in her home living room with her delicious fruits. Representing the diverse diversity of varieties here is the pineapple comosus, Variegatus' called. With ivory or pink-edged, prickly leaf rosettes and a red ornamental fruit with decorative leaves, the exotic plant attracts everyone's attention.
Vriesea - flowers like a blazing sword
The Epiphytische Bromelien genus provides a furore in living and working spaces. It is not only the intensely colored inflorescences that fall into the eye. In addition, captivate the most beautiful species of this genus with decorative drawn, lanceolate leaves. Splendid specimens, such as Vriesea hieroglyphica, take on a space-consuming size with a diameter of up to 100 cm.
Species Primus Vriesea splendens boasts a up to 100 cm high inflorescence, at the end of a 30 cm long, flat ear of corn perched, formed of red bracts and yellow flowers. As with all bromeliads, it takes 3 to 4 years to be patient until the flower show takes place.
Tips
Bromeliads are not only uncomplicated houseplants, but are also happy to help you with the care of sophisticated orchids. So the Tillandsia usneoides ensures that a freely hanging Vanda orchid does not dry out so quickly. For this purpose, simply incorporate the bromeliad into the network of aerial roots.