Attached plants
- Natural terrarium decoration
- Durable moss cushions
- Freshly green when moist, silvery white when dry
- Small Tillandsia from Guatemala
- About 5 - 8 cm high
- Pink-red leaves during bloom
- Epiphyte from Peru and Ecuador
- Exudes a pleasant scent
- Densely branched bushes
- For desert or steppe terrariums
- Rainforest Tillandsia from Central America
- Snake-like curved, thin leaves
- Widened rosette basis
- Small compact Tillandsia
- Narrow and upright growing
- For rainforest terrariums
- Small Grey Tillandsia from Mesoamerica
- About 5 - 8 cm high
- Contrasting colours during bloom
- Striking Tillandsia selection from eastern Mexico
- Relatively small, compact rosette
- Light green to light yellow leaves during flowering time
- White flowers
- Epiphyte and rock plant from the Andean countries
- Forms densely leafy stems
- Suitable for dry forest and semi-desert terrariums
- Sprawling green Tillandsia
- Striking, bizarre appearance
- For rainforest terrariums
- Epiphytic or substrate cultivation
- Compact, colourful rosette of leaves
- Decorative due to bright leaf colours
- Flower inconspicuous, positioned in the centre
- Ideal for humid terrariums
- Also called Philodendron "Mini"
- Small climbing aroid
- Lanceolate leaves
- Rather slow growth
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Delicate variant of Spanish moss
- Forms grey-green curtains and "beards"
- Suitable for rainforest terraria
- Also traded as "Tillandsia argentea var. fuchsii"
- Fine-leaved air plant from Mexico
- Roundish rosettes
- Green Tillandsia from South America
- Solitary deep red flower
- Easy to keep species
- Medium sized funnel bromeliad
- Varigated leaves
- Popular ornamental bromeliad
- Very attractive
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Medium sized funnel bromeliad from Brazil
- Red patterned leaf undersides
- Tongue-shaped lanceolate leaves
- Small flowers deep in the funnel
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Originates from South America
- Bromeliad family
- Epiphytic growth
- Lance-shaped, striped leaves
- Thrives at 18 - 27 °C
- Compact, rosette-like growth habit
- Colourful leaf pattern
- Low growth height
- Bright, indirect light required
- Ideal for small terrariums
- Epiphytic lifestyle
- Bright flower colours
- Decorative leaf pattern
- Low maintenance requirements
- Humid climate preferred
- Bromeliad cultivar
- Delicate blossoms with intense colour
- Water-retaining rosette
- Sunny to semi-shady
- Prefers warm temperatures
- Stem-forming Tillandsia from the Peruan Andes
- Grows naturally on rock faces
- Suitable for moderately dry terrariums
- Large grey Tillandsia
- Silvery grey-green and velvety
- Recommendable for dry forest terrariums
- Attractive epiphyte from Brazil
- Inflorescences with peach tones
- Recommendable for dry forest terrariums
- Rosette-shaped Tillandsia
- size of 10 - 20 cm
- Red leaves in good light and during flowering
- Blue-purple flowers
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
Terrarium plants - Perennials - Green up your terrarium!
Especially in the tropics and subtropics, many plants grow as epiphytes. Epiphytes grow on trees and shrubs, while plants on rocks are called lithophytes or epiliths. Some of the same species occur as both epiphytes and lithophytes, while others are more specialised. Epiphytes often have special adaptations to hold on and obtain sufficient water and nutrients, such as adhesive roots, water-storing "cisterns" or humus-collecting leaves. Some are in symbiosis with ants. Many epiphytes need a certain layer of loose substrate in which to root and can also be kept as ground or pot plants. However, there are also very "air plants" that only form adhesive roots or are completely rootless. Tillandsias, for example, absorb water and nutrients from precipitation and moist air via suction scales on their leaves, while orchids do this via a special layer of cells on their aerial roots.