Pineapple Air Plant, T. Utriculata

Identifier:
9987  
Object ID:
998.1980.3085.1896
Catalog:
Photos
Title:
Pineapple Air Plant, T. Utriculata
Description:
8 X 10 black and white photograph of a pineapple air plant attatched to base of trunk on tree. Tree in woods surrounded by other trees. Plant has tall stalk of dark flowers. Writing on back of photo, “ Corkscrew, 1958, LaRue Spiker, Route 1, Box 14c, Bar Harbor, Maine. Paper attatched to back, “ 3. A ‘pineapple air plant’ which had bloomed on the trunk of a small cypress tree. This species, Tillandsia utriculata, requires five or six years to mature, blooms but once then dies. It belongs to the same botanical genus as Spanish moss.”
Creator:
Spiker, LaRue
Place:
Date:
1958
Collection:
LaRue Spiker Collection

Citation

Spiker, LaRue, “Pineapple Air Plant, T. Utriculata,” Mount Desert Island Historical Society, accessed March 31, 2025, https://mdihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/9621.Item 9987

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