Morley Read / Tropical flat snake (Siphlophis compressus) climbing on a flowering bromeliad (Aechmea) in the Amazon rainforest, Orellana Province, Ecuador. (non-ex)

Pete Oxford / Marsupial Frog (Gastrotheca orophylax) hiding in bromeliad, native to South America

Cyril Ruoso / Puya flowers (Puya sp) Cordillera Blanca Massif, Andes, Peru.

Cyril Ruoso / Queen of the Andes (Puya raymondii) Cordillera Blanca Massif, Andes, Peru, November.

Cyril Ruoso / Giant humming bird (Patagona gigas) feeding from Queen of the Andes (Puya raymondii) flowers, Cordillera Blanca Massif, Andes, Peru, November.

Scott Leslie / Limpkin (Aramus guarauna) amid curtain of Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides), Florida

Cyril Ruoso / Bromeliad (Bromeliaceae) pair flowering, Pacaya Samiria National Park, Peru

Jack Dykinga / Hectia, a tropical bromeliad, stress coloured with blades grown in interlocking patterns, in the state of Yucatan, Mexico

Pete Oxford / Bromeliad (Bromeliaceae) in flooded igapo forest, Cocaya River, eastern Amazon, Ecuador

Robert Thompson / Red-eyed tree frog {Agalychnis callidryas} resting in Bromeliad flower, Nicaragua, June

Stephen Dalton / Red eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) on Bromeliad leaf, Central America, controlled conditions

Tui De Roy / Toucan Barbet (Semnornis ramphastinus) beside a bromeliad, Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador