Aechmea tillandsioides is a bromeliad widespread across southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, northern Brazil). It is widely cultivated in other regions as an ornamental plant. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Aechmea tillandsioides being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Aechmea mertensii
- Aechmea chantinii
- Quesnelia liboniana
- Aechmea aquilega
- Aechmea nudicaulis
- Aechmea lamarchei
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Bromeliaceae
- Genus
- Aechmea
- Species
- Aechmea tillandsioides
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