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Things that aren't worth money:
99 of 100 Art prints
Most albums
Every collectible coin sold as an investment
The guitar your dad never played
Actual money, I suspect

Things that are worth money:
Leaves???
Those parasitic bromeliads I am plagued with
Random toys
Pennies, maybe
Marbles???

October 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM Everybody can reply

jenniferauh.bsky.social

@jenniferauh.bsky.social

# (the #bromeliads) are a family of monocot flowering plants of about 80 genera and 3700 known species,[2] native mainly to the tropical Americas, with several species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa,

October 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM Everybody can reply

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

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Are you as bromeli-MAD about bromeliads as us? Then you're in luck!
Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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October 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM Everybody can reply

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fetchfeeds.com

@fetchfeeds.bsky.social

"Spring has arrived in South Australia! Gardening societies host shows & sales, discussing bromeliads, geraniums, pelargoniums, and dahlias on ABC Talkback Gardening. ínDelSu #Jard https://fefd.link/CjK8o

October 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM Everybody can reply

mossworm.bsky.social

@mossworm.bsky.social

checking in on the Seed Shrimp Which Only Live In Rainwater Held Between The Leaves Of Live Bromeliads. they're doing good

Center of a bromeliad leaf whorl, naturally filled with leaves and rainwater, containing dozens of tiny round pink shrimp

October 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM Everybody can reply

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Super-fluous 🎃

@un-ness-assary.bsky.social

Yeah, I think it is. Did you know that pineapple plants are also bromeliads? They're cool.

October 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM Everybody can reply

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All for Gardening

@allforgardening.bsky.social

Bromeliads found growing in the Columbian Andes . I would like to identify the species. (9000f/3000m elevation). close to the

https://www.allforgardening.com/1489441/bromeliads-found-growing-in-the-columbian-andes-i-would-like-to-identify-the-species-9000f-3000m-elevation-close-to-the-snowline/

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Bromeliads found growing in the Columbian Andes . I would like to identify the species. (9000f/3000m elevation). close to the snowline - All For Gardening

these were growing in abundance

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October 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM Everybody can reply

Donald Coffman

@donaldjoh.bsky.social

I have a reed-stem begonia, a Begonia ‘Magnus’, and keep Begonia boliviensis which I grew from seed. I also grow bromeliads and a few orchids with no problem but cannot grow pothos vine.

October 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM Everybody can reply

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David C. Simon

@davidcsimon.bsky.social

I looked into one of our garden bromeliads tonight and found a Verreaux's Tree Frog looking back.

Photograph of a frog face-on to the viewer, situated in a curved green and maroon leaf. The frog is orange, brown, and cream, with wavy lines that resemble smooth bark or leaf litter. Its eyes are speckled in cram and brown with ovoid pupils.

October 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM Everybody can reply

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bonque, ben

@kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social

"bromeliads, I think, and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch, and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right...

October 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM Everybody can reply

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🍀🤠gus🤠🔪

@redangous.bsky.social

Beware!! Theres a lil snake face in the last picture.

3 big green pinguicula plants, looking like moist succulents, crown a pumice stone, 2 putting off bright fuscia flowers. Scaly-looking crocodile ferns peep up from behind, while a nearby rock houses some smaller pings and some oak leaf fig. A fingertip holds up one of the flowers to face the camera. The whole scene is about 8" across.

A single gorgeous rosy pinguicula blossoms in a bell jar, its own hot pink blossom bent gently against the top at the end of its long stem. It is the neighbor of the first image and my newest plant!!

This is my growout tank. Theres two kinds of creeping begonia, 4 bromeliads of different species, another crocodile fern, some wildly leggy fittonia shoved out the side of the long low rectangle of tank, whose lid leaves a little gap. There are also a couple little garbage cans, a sea urchin bone, a sand dollar, and some more itty-bitty Oak leaf fig vine. Love those little guys. They've taken over the Garfield, I gotta trim that thang... I'll get a pic later

A snake's head, the width of a dime, peeps out from between creeping watermelon begonia leaves. Her nose is black, and glossy like her little black eyes, which blend in. She's got a creamy collar just behind the eyes, which her lil smiley mouth extends into, but you gotta look close. Her yawns are hysterical. She's also got reddish orange stripes, alternating with the black and white. Beetlejuice lookin little noodle. She's about 18 inches long and 7 years old.

October 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM Everybody can reply

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The Tropical Grower

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Pale Yellow Dahlia with its big, soft yellow petals that appear to be brushed with gold dust when the sunlight hits them. Check out this week's lovelies with even more Bromeliads. Enjoy!
thetropicalgrower.com/gardening-ph... #flowers #flowersonfriday #happy #joy #photography #gardening #nature

What's Bloomn' - The Tropical Grower

Every week The Tropical Grower posts new photos of flowers blooming around Our Garden in the What's Bloomn' slideshow. It's always a show.

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October 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM Everybody can reply

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Emma Lewis

@petchary.bsky.social

The Jamaican Blackbird is #endangered on the #IUCN Red List. Restricted to only 2 areas of the island, Blue Mountains and Cockpit Country. Lives in tall mature trees and the canopy, feeding on epiphytes and bromeliads. Local name: “Wild Pine Sargeant.” Threatened by bauxite mining, development.

A photograph is a black bird with black eyes, sitting in a mossy branch with wild orchids and the headline Jamaica Blackbird Conservation in the Blue and John Crow Mountains.

October 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM Everybody can reply

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Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

“Garça branca” by Rosana Paulino (Brazilian) - Graphite, acrylic, and natural pigment on canvas / 2023 - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Argentina) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #Paulino #MALBA #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #RosanaPaulino #BrazilianArtist

This centerpiece of a very large triptych rendered in hues of flaxen yellow and maize depicts a towering woman rising from a lattice of mangrove roots. As part human and part tree, her form is both ascending and anchored. Her skin, mottled in ochre and sienna, reads as both bark and scar, a living record of endurance. Her short, textured black hair frames her face with luminous aquamarine eyes and full lips from which crimson bromeliads blossom, unfurling into the air. Around her throat and ears, similar red petals gather like ceremonial adornments. Her left hand is lifted in benediction or invocation; her right hovers near her chest holding up a red blossom. On either side, interlocking branches and roots braid into a serpentine web, painted in warm earth tones that pulse with quiet movement. Two white herons stand poised among the roots. The composition seems to breathe like a rhythm of rootedness and renewal with each gesture suspended between stillness and becoming.

As part of Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino’s “Mangue (Mangrove)” series, this work transforms the mangrove’s ecology into a representation of Black female survival. The woman, both rooted and ascending, embodies the cyclical force of regeneration by portraying the body as terrain through which memory, ancestry, and the natural world interlace. The egret (garça branca) appears here as a threshold guardian, a creature bridging water and sky. In Brazilian cosmology, it often signifies passage, wisdom, and rebirth.

Paulino’s practice, grounded in material experimentation and feminist thought, sutures the violences of colonial history with gestures of care and continuity. Born in São Paulo in 1967, she describes her “Mangue” works as “returning to the mud, to the roots that feed us and hold us steady.” In “Garça branca,” the triptych becomes a living altar to resilience like an invocation of the woman who stands, steadfast, where sea and soil converge.

October 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM Everybody can reply

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All for Gardening

@allforgardening.bsky.social

Clermont Garden Club’s Field Trip To Russell’s Bromeliads

https://www.allforgardening.com/1482125/clermont-garden-clubs-field-trip-to-russells-bromeliads/

Grace Rabano, Publicity Lead for Clermont Garden Club Members of the Clermont Garden Club enjoyed a field trip to Russell’s Bromeliads, a …

Clermont Garden Club's Field Trip To Russell's Bromeliads - All For Gardening

Grace Rabano, Publicity Lead for Clermont Garden Club

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October 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM Everybody can reply

AFRO CARIB VYBZ

@afro-carib-vybz.bsky.social

Those Blooming Bromeliads!
#Nature #Gardening
#Plants #Bromeliads #Peace
#AfroCaribVybz

October 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM Everybody can reply

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Broad Eye View

@broadeyeview.bsky.social

Shrimp plants, lantana, bromeliads, hibiscuses, star jasmine, gardenias, coleus, english ivy, guacamole and potato vine, and a giant bleeding heart. I managed to get it all repotted and combined. My deck will be banging next summer if it lives. Some I always wanted but finicky so trying for free.

October 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM Everybody can reply

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emotions scrapbook (returned)

@affectingbot.bsky.social

There are these great big flowers called bromeliads and there's a type of frog that lays eggs in the flowers and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the tops of the trees and don't even know about the ground.

October 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM Everybody can reply

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