Attached plants
- Natural terrarium decoration
- Durable moss cushions
- Freshly green when moist, silvery white when dry
- Small Grey Tillandsia from Mesoamerica
- About 5 - 8 cm high
- Contrasting colours during bloom
- Also called Philodendron "Mini"
- Small climbing aroid
- Lanceolate leaves
- Rather slow growth
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Small Tillandsia from Guatemala
- About 5 - 8 cm high
- Pink-red leaves during bloom
- Small air plant
- Green leaf colour
- Upright rosette of leaves
- Changes colour during flower formation
- Suitable for small tropical terrariums
- Tank bromeliad
- Up to 80 cm wide
- Glossy dark green leaves
- Bright red inflorescence
- Epiphyte for tropical terrariums
- Indirect light or partial shade
- Prefers high humidity
- Moderate watering required
- Can be cultivated epiphytically and terraristically
- Epiphytic or substrate cultivation
- Up to 50 cm in diameter
- Bright, indirect light
- Moderate watering
- Leaf rosette stores water
- 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
- Epiphyte from the Mexican highland
- Silvery grey-green and velvety
- Recommendable for dry forest terrariums
- Attractive epiphyte from Brazil
- Inflorescences with peach tones
- Recommendable for dry forest terrariums
- Tillandsia bulbosa-like hybrid
- Produces small pups after flowering
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Rosette-shaped Tillandsia
- size of 10 - 20 cm
- Red leaves in good light and during flowering
- Blue-purple flowers
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Thick, bright Spanish moss variant
- Forms eye-catching curtains and "beards"
- Suitable for subtropical humid forest terrariums
- Delicate variant of Spanish moss
- Forms grey-green curtains and "beards"
- Suitable for rainforest terraria
- Very popular, robust Tillandsia from South America
- Stiff, long curved rosette leaves
- Grows to approx. 15 cm in hight
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Large epiphyte with conspicuous pseudobulb
- Grows to about 18 - 23 cm in height
- Ideal for drier mountain forest terraria
- Large but graceful grey Tillandsia
- Narrow red and yellow inflorescences
- Suitable for drier tropical terrariums
- Epiphyte from southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina
- Laterally twisted leaves
- Broad, fragrant, light pink flowers
- Natural hybrid from Central America
- Rosette of narrow leaves
- Epiphyte for moderately dry tropical terrariums
- Desert Tillandsia from Peru
- Star-like leaf arrangement
- Fragrant flowers
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.