Rainforest Flora, Inc. was founded in 1974. Our headquarters is in Torrance, CA.
On our website, we sell and ship within the US:
- Rare Tillandsias
- Staghorn Ferns
- Landscape Bromeliads
At our retail location in Torrance, we stock a much wider variety of landscape plants, houseplants, and other indoor plants that are not available for shipment.
We also operate a domestic US and international wholesale program. To be eligible, you must:
- Be an incorporated business, LLC, or other legal entity
- Have a valid resale license if required in your country or state
- Purchase in volumes greater than $250
If you would like to sign up for our wholesale program and speak to one of our sales reps, please fill out this form.
Rainforest Flora's History
Rainforest Flora, Inc. was formed in 1974 by Paul T. Isley III, Jerrold A. Robinson, and William Harris.
Paul Isley was introduced to Tillandsias while a student at UCLA in the 1960s. He was fascinated by these incredibly unique-looking plants that grow with no soil. A few years after graduating from UCLA with a degree in Economics, he and a friend traveled through Mexico and Guatemala, collecting plants along the way. Paul flew back up to Los Angeles from Guatemala City in the summer of 1974, and a few months later, he began gluing them onto pieces of grapewood and offering them at swap meets and arts and crafts fairs.
After two years of doing this, he invited his friend Jerry Robinson to join him. He had met Jerry while on a diving expedition in the Caribbean that was searching for Spanish Galleons. Jerry graduated from UCLA with a degree in Geology and had been managing a K-Mart store in Sacramento. He came down for a few weeks and made the commitment to the business, and he has been an integral part of the operation ever since. The two have built Rainforest Flora, Inc. into a respected nursery concern.
