Bromeliaceae (a bromeliads) occurs as big personal of flowering plants native to the tropical & warmly moderate New World. A personal includes each epiphytes, such as Spanish moss Tillandsia usneoides, and ground plants, like a Pineapple Ananas comosus. Several bromeliads come respire to store water in a "tank" formed by their tightly-overlapping leaf bases. But, a personal is diverse plenty to include a tank bromeliads, grey-leaved epiphytic Tillandsia species which gather water lone from either leaf structures known as trichomes, and potentially the big total of desert-living succulents.

A big bromeliad is Puya raimondii, which reaches 3-Four m tall around vegetive incubation by having a flower spike 9-10 m tall, & the smallest is probably Spanish moss.

Genera
Abromeitiella Mez Acanthostachys Klotzsch Aechmea Ruiz & Pav. Ananas Mill Andrea Mez Androlepis Brongn. old-fashioned Houllet Araeococcus Brongn Ayensua L.B.Sm. Billbergia Thunb. Brewcaria L.B.Sm., Steyerm. & H.Rob Brocchinia Schult.f. Bromelia L. Canistrum E.Morren Catopsis Griseb. Connellia N.E.Br. Cottendorfia Schult.f. Cryptanthus Otto & A.Dietr. Deuterocohnia Mez *Disteganthus lem. Dyckia Schult.f. Encholirium Mart. passe Schult.f. Fascicularia Mez Fernseea Baker Fosterella L.B.Sm. Glomeropitcairnia Mez Greigia Regel Guzmania Ruiz & Pav. Hechtia Klotzsch Hohenbergia Schult.f. Hohenbergiopsis L.B.Sm. & Read Lindmania Mez Lymania Read Mezobromelia L.B.Sm Navia Schult.f. Neoglaziovia Mez Neoregelia L.B.Sm. Nidularium Lem. Ochagavia Phil. Orthophytum Beer Pitcairnia L'Her. Portea K. Koch Pseudaechmea L.B.Sm. & Read *Pseudananas Hassl. passee Harms Puya Molina Quesnelia Gaudich. Ronnbergia E.Morren & Andre Steyerbromelia L.B.Sm Streptocalyx Beer Tillandsia L. Vriesia Lindl. Wittrockia Lindm.

Cultivation and uses
Simply a single bromeliad, a pineapple Ananas comosus, is a commercially crucial food crop. Several more bromeliads come popular ornamental plants, grown as two garden & home plants.