bromeliaceae

Updated: May 22, 2025

Here are seen tillandsias and bromeliaceae, like the crowns of huge pineapples; large climbing arums, with their dark green and arrow-head shaped leaves, forming fantastic and graceful ornaments swinging in mid-air; while huge-leaved ferns and other parasites cling to the stems up to the very highest branches.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America

It resembled very closely the fruit of the Chinese genus Salisburia, one of the Yew tribe, or Taxoid conifers. Antholithes. Dr. Hooker, after seeing very perfect specimens, also thought that they resembled the spike of a highly-organised plant in full flower, such as one of the Bromeliaceae, to which Professor Lindley had at first compared them. Mr. Pothocites Grantonii, Pat.

Sir Charles Lyell - The Student's Elements of Geology