tillandsiae

Updated: August 15, 2026

Slender air roots hung down in clusters, and looping sipos dangled from the lower branches; bunches of grass, tillandsiae, and ferns sat in the forks of the larger boughs, and the trunks of trees near the water had adhering to them round dried masses of freshwater sponges.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons