Do you love bromeliads? Well, you may feel like you need to cultivate up some of them but all seems in vain. Well, different bromeliads grow in different conditions. There are several categories of bromeliads that can be categorized into different genera. Under each genera are different species of bromeliads. Bromeliad genera include aechmea, ananas, billbergia, bromelia, edmundoa, dyckia, nidularium, tillandsia, vriesea and wittrockia. There are several other genera but these do extremely well in South America, especially Brazil.
There are about 3000 known species of bromeliads and 56 genera into which they have been categorized. The major divisions of the bromeliads include:
- Bromelioideae: 32 genera and 861 species in total.
- Pitcairnioideae: 16 genera and 1030 species in total.
- Tillandsioideae: 9 genera and 1277 species in total.