What are air plants?

Question

What are air plants?

Answer 1

Plants that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it

Answer 2

Bromeliads are air plants. Spanish moss is an air plant -- any epiphyte is an "air plant".

Answer 3

answers above are good.

However, you could refer to other sort of air plant, which is sometimes sold, sometimes under name air plant or air fern or neptune plant.

They are not plants , but marine animals harvested from the North Atlantic, dried, soaked with glyserine and dyed green.