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Other Little published: much of this is inferred from related species

Guzmania angustifolia

A small, narrow-leaved Guzmania native from Nicaragua to Ecuador, described in 1884 (as Caraguata angustifolia). Little specific ecology has been published, so these recommendations treat it as a humid-forest epiphytic bromeliad of Central America and north-western South America, and confidence is low.

Guzmania angustifolia
Photo: Timm Stolten, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Its range spans the wet forests of southern Central America and the Colombian and Ecuadorian Pacific and Andean slopes, where small guzmanias grow as epiphytes on trunks and branches in humid, shaded to partly shaded forest. No habitat description specific to this species was found.

No elevation data was found. The range suggests humid lowland to lower montane forest.

NicaraguaCosta RicaPanamaColombiaEcuador

🔒 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-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.