Attached plants
- Natural terrarium decoration
- Durable moss cushions
- Freshly green when moist, silvery white when dry
- The smallest Neoregelia species
- 5 to 8 cm leaf rosette
- Green, reddish-brown spotted leaves
- Pretty blue flowers
- Ideal for small rainforest terrariums
- Small Tillandsia from Guatemala
- About 5 - 8 cm high
- Pink-red leaves during bloom
- Small Tillandsia from Central America
- About 5 - 8 cm high
- Peachy-red leaves during bloom
- Small air plant
- Green leaf colour
- Upright rosette of leaves
- Changes colour during flower formation
- Suitable for small tropical terrariums
- Striking Tillandsia selection from eastern Mexico
- Relatively small, compact rosette
- Light green to light yellow leaves during flowering time
- White flowers
- Small Tillandsia from Central America
- About 5 - 8 cm high
- Contrasting colours during bloom
- Compact grey Tillandsia
- Red flower spike
- For dry and desert terrariums
- Epiphyte from Central America
- Snake-like curved leaves
- For desert or steppe terrariums
- Epiphyte from Mexico and Guatemala
- Special colourful selection
- For desert or steppe terrariums
- Interesting rainforest Tillandsia
- Snake-like curved leaves
- Red bracts during blossom
- Also traded as "Tillandsia argentea var. fuchsii"
- Fine-leaved air plant from Mexico
- Roundish rosettes
- Medium sized funnel bromeliad
- Varigated leaves
- Popular ornamental bromeliad
- Very attractive
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Small funnel bromeliad
- Colours intensively in good light
- Forms offshoots quickly
- Small flowers deep in the funnel
- Suitable for small rainforest terrariums
- Heart-shaped, velvety leaves
- Leaves grow up to 30 cm
- Can be used as an epiphyte
- Thrives in bright, indirect light
- Perfect for tropical setups
- Indirect light or partial shade
- Prefers high humidity
- Moderate watering required
- Can be cultivated epiphytically and terraristically
- Rosette-shaped Tillandsia
- size of 10 - 20 cm
- Red leaves in good light and during flowering
- Blue-purple flowers
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Lichen-like appearance
- Forms silver-grey curtains and "beards"
- Suitable for subtropical humid forest terrariums
- Magnificent silver-grey Tillandsia from South America
- Apricot and white coloured inflorescence
- Suitable for dry forest and steppe terrariums
- Epiphyte and rock plant from the Andean countries
- Forms densely leafy stems
- Suitable for dry forest and semi-desert terrariums
- Fine-leaved epiphyte from Central America
- Graceful, small plant
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Small Tillandsia from Central America
- About 5 - 8 cm high
- Silver-grey tones
- Small Grey Tillandsia from Mesoamerica
- About 5 - 8 cm high
- Contrasting colours during bloom
- Epiphyte from Venezuela and Columbia
- Drooping shoots
- Fiery red blossoms
- 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.