Volunteer Park Conservatory different "Tillandsia" species. The conservatory also displays terrestrial species of the bromeliad family, such as the pineapple (Ananas comosus). A fern is any plant classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta (also known as Filicophyta), a group composed of roughly 20,000 species. The conservatory's collection features a number of cycads. Other featured plants in the Fern House include a Mexican breadfruit ("Monstera deliciosa") and tropical flowers including passionflower ("Passiflora" sp.) and hibiscus. This house also features bog gardens with a collection of carnivorous plants including Venus fly traps ("Dionaea muscipula"), sundews ("Drosera" sp), pitcher plants ("Sarracenia" sp). This house within
Actinidia deliciosa the Yangtze River. It is also grown in other areas of China, including Sichuan. In 2010 and 2011, kiwifruit vines worldwide, in Italy, France, and New Zealand, suffered devastating attacks by a bacterial disease caused by "Pseudomonas syringae" pv. "actinidiae", with some of the New Zealand attacks by the virulent strain PSA-V. The disease had first been noticed in Japan in the 1980s, and subsequently in northern Italy (1992) and South Korea. Actinidia deliciosa Actinidia deliciosa, fuzzy kiwifruit or mangüeyo is a fruiting vine native to southern China, the fruit of which has been declared the national fruit of that