Ionantha Air Plant

Air plants have a unique way of “breathing”, using CAM photosynthesis, which allows the exchange of gasses during the night, unlike most other plants they use the sunlight for photosynthesis.

You can find air plants in various climates, such as humid rainforests, high cloud forests, deserts, coasts, and mountain sides. Air plants have been able to adapt to some of the harshest environmental climates.

Air plants are epiphytes and can also be lithophytes. An epiphyte is a plant that grows on another plant, like a tree branch or bark, but is not parasitic.

Native to Central America and Mexico

Difficulty level: Easy

Pet-Friendly, not toxic to pets or humans