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The bromeliad is one of many tropical flowers found in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. #127850876
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The Bromeliaceae the bromeliads are a family of monocot flowering plants native mainly to the tropical Americas. Many bromeliads are able to store water in a structure formed by their tightly-overlapping leaf bases. One study found 175,000 bromeliads per hectare 2.5 acres in one forest; that many bromeliads can sequester 50,000 liters more than 13,000 gallons of water.