Guzmania berteroana
Guzmania berteroana is a Caribbean tank bromeliad of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, first described from Bertero's Puerto Rican collections as a Tillandsia and moved to Guzmania by Mez. It is an epiphyte of humid mountain forest and is easy to keep at ordinary warm room temperatures if it has bright shade, high humidity and clean water in its cup; it is rarely offered outside the islands.
Where it grows wild
Epiphyte in humid montane and cloud forest of the Puerto Rican cordillera and the mountains of Hispaniola, settling on mossy trunks and limbs where the air stays damp. The habitat type is inferred from the genus and the collection sites; no habitat note accompanies the records.
The one mapped record, an isotype from Orocovis in the Cordillera Central, sits at about 480 m; the humid forest it belongs to runs from roughly 400 to 1000 m.
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