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Aechmea bromeliifolia

A tough, wide-ranging tank bromeliad with a narrow bottle-shaped rosette of spiny green leaves, growing on the ground or on trees from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. It handles bright light and a marked dry season, making it one of the easier Aechmea to grow.

Aechmea bromeliifolia
Photo: João Medeiros, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Grows terrestrially or as an epiphyte in places as different as hot rainforest, gallery forest, and seasonally dry cerrado and rocky highland, mostly in bright, partly open sites.

Recorded from sea level to about 1,430 m, median 575 m; the climate sites are Brazilian highland points at 760–1,100 m.

BrazilFrench GuianaParaguayVenezuelaGuyanaArgentinaBoliviaSurinameColombiaTrinidad and TobagoMexicoCentral America

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY 2.0 licence, unmodified.