A genus of small spiny plants in the bromeliad family, native to tropical regions of South America.
Modern Latin botanical naming, likely derived from a Tupi or indigenous South American language term for spiny plants, with the Latinized ending '-ea.'
Echea plants are tiny bromeliads that hold rainwater in their leaves like little cups—so small rainfrogs actually lay eggs in them, creating entire nurseries the size of a thimble.
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