Guzmania andreana
Guzmania andreana is a small, cool-growing epiphytic tank bromeliad of Colombian Andean cloud forest, collected between 1385 and 1950 m, with a slender scape and orange-red flowers that make it one of the more collectable species in the genus. Its home is cool, cloudy and wet every month, so it wants intermediate-to-cool nights, high humidity and filtered light rather than warm windowsill culture.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte on mossy trunks and branches in montane cloud forest on the western and central Andean slopes of Colombia, from Nariño in the south to Antioquia in the north. Described by Edouard Morren as Caraguata andreana in the nineteenth century, it has a long history in cultivation for its coloured flowers.
Wild records span 1385 to 1950 m, most of them near 1900 m in Nariño and Antioquia.
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