Attached plants
- 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
- Rosette-shaped Tillandsia
- size of 10 - 20 cm
- Red leaves in good light and during flowering
- Blue-purple flowers
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Small Tillandsia from Central America
- About 5 - 8 cm high
- Peachy-red leaves during bloom
- Small Tillandsia from Guatemala
- About 5 - 8 cm high
- Pink-red leaves during bloom
- Striking Tillandsia selection from eastern Mexico
- Relatively small, compact rosette
- Light green to light yellow leaves during flowering time
- White flowers
- Epiphyte from Venezuela and Columbia
- Drooping shoots
- Fiery red blossoms
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Epiphyte from northern and western Mexico
- Green-yellow flowers
- Rare in cultivation
- Rainforest Tillandsia from Central America
- Uniform rosette formation
- Turns red in good lighting
- Fine-leaved epiphyte from Central America
- Graceful, small plant
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Large but graceful grey Tillandsia
- Lithophyte from Brasil
- Suitable for drier tropical terrariums
- Epiphyte from South America
- Easy and decorative plant
- Suitable for dry forest and semi-desert terrariums
- Tall air plant
- Robust and easy Tillandsia species
- Forms grasslike tufts
- Large bromeliad from Venezuela
- Impressive leaf pattern
- Flaming red inflorescence
- Natural terrarium decoration
- Durable moss cushions
- Freshly green when moist, silvery white when dry
- 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
- Delicate variant of Spanish moss
- Forms grey-green curtains and "beards"
- Suitable for rainforest terraria
- Lichen-like appearance
- Forms silver-grey curtains and "beards"
- Suitable for subtropical humid forest terrariums
- Fine-leaved Tillandsia
- Slightly reddish, thin rosette leaves
- Delicate pink flower
- Suitable for rainforest terrariums
- Fine-leaved Tillandsia
- Upright, thin rosette leaves
- Delicate pink flower
- 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.