A BROMELIAD PARADISE
The northeastern coastal lowland of Rio Grande do Sul State, near Torres, in South Brazil, was originally covered by a compact tropical rain forest. It is very lamentable that the majority of this forest was devastated. But some small spots survived and there you can find a bromeliad paradise like this one on the photo. In no other place in the neotropics I found so many bromeliads together, covering almost completely the soil. In the foreground,  Nidularium innocentii, N. scheremetiewii and behind, a blooming Vriesea incurvata. On the trees, a great diversity of Vriesea's and Tillandsia's. High humidity and and high average temperatures dominate this environment