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Bromeliad

Tillandsia caput-medusae

Description:

Apparently a mutualist plant, it has spiky pink petals and firm green leafs, disposed in interesting curving-ways. This is the reason for it's name: medusae

Habitat:

It lives attached to another tree, surrounded by lichen. It uses the tree only as support.

Notes:

Possibly, it has a local name

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2 Comments

G u s t a v o
G u s t a v o 12 years ago

Oi Matsu! O Project Noah está no orkut!!!

Yasser
Yasser 13 years ago

Looks like a bromeliad more than a bracken fern.

Matsu Soratami
Spotted by
Matsu Soratami

Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Spotted on Feb 28, 2011
Submitted on Feb 28, 2011

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