 Many other bromeliads are popular ornamental plants, grown as both garden and houseplants.Bromeliads are important food plants for many peoples.For example, the Pima of Mexico occasionally consume flowers of "Tillandsia erubescens" and "T. recurvata" due to their high sugar content; in Argentina and Bolivia, the shoot apices of "T. rubella" and "T. maxima" are consumed; in Venezuela, indigenous coastal tribes eat a sour-tasting but sweet-smelling berry, known as 'Maya', of "Bromelia chrysantha" as a fruit or in fermented beverages.