Native Bromeliads of Florida

Native Bromeliads of Florida

Gardeners will love this fascinating insight into bromeliads.

Harry Luther, Director of the Mulford B. Foster Bromeliad Identification Center and Curator of the Living Collections, and David Benzing, Jessie B. Cox Chair for Tropical Botany from Marie Selby Botanical Gardens co-authored this 126-page book which profiles all of Florida's bromeliads.  It also provides instructions on how to cultivate the more ornamental of the state's bromeliads. 

Native Bromeliads of Florida provides range maps, a glossary of technical terms, keys for identification, suggested readings, and narrative descriptions of the species and hybrids that include notes on ecology, conservation status, associations with animals, and other interesting aspects of natural history. Gardeners will find within this book colorful images that indicate why these plants warrant such high praise in the horicultural world. 

You can purchase a copy of Native Bromeliads of Florida from the Selby Gardens' Plant Shop for $16.95.