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A Growing Passion
The Beautiful Bromeliad
Season 7
Episode 1
Bromeliads are a unique group of plants with amazingly colored and patterned foliage along with vividly colored flowers. Bromeliads have evolved in some of nature's most challenging conditions, from desert to rainforest to cloud forest. Spanish moss is a bromeliad. Air plants are bromeliads, too. Discover the amazing diversity of bromeliads!
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