A Tillandsia ionantha grows attached to a piece of grapevine. Rainforest Flora in Torrance specializes in Tillandsia, plants that grow in the air without soil.

Justin Hancock, horticulturalist, Costa farms explains that soaking or dunking air plants is a good way of watering them.

Tillandsia ionantha, or sky plant, is a shaggy-looking specimen with green bracts that turn pink or purple at their tips before flowering.

Among the six species at the park, the Tillandsia caput-medusae is one of the most beautiful, unusual plants with an obvious bizzare and fuzzy look.