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Startup hopes to introduce tropical plant, earth education to R.I.

VERSATILE VEGETATION: Richard Lallo, owner of One Earth Air Plant Center in North Kingstown, has a variety of Tillandsia plants available that require just a misting of water, no soil and can be placed anywhere. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
VERSATILE VEGETATION: Richard Lallo, owner of One Earth Air Plant Center in North Kingstown, has a variety of Tillandsia plants available that require just a misting of water, no soil and can be placed anywhere. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A love for the natural world led Richard Lallo to start One Earth Air Plant Center in the Wickford village of North Kingstown. The new business sells air plants, a common name for species of the Tillandsia genus, many of which grow without soil while attached to other plants by root. “The air plant is

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