Guzmania bergae

Guzmania bergae is a tank bromeliad described by Harry Luther; GBIF holds the name but no wild records, no distribution and no climate data, and the species is unknown in cultivation. Luther's Guzmania novelties of the 1990s and 2000s came largely from the wet Pacific-slope forests of Ecuador, so this is a genus-level profile for a warm-intermediate cloud-forest epiphyte, offered with low confidence.

At home, aim for

Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry

Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Not documented in the sources reachable here. By analogy with Luther's other Guzmania from Ecuador it is most likely an epiphyte of very wet premontane or lower montane forest on the Chocó-Andean slope, on mossy trunks under a cloudy canopy.

No elevation records; Guzmania of this type are usually found between about 500 and 1800 m.

Ecuador

🔒 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.