Guzmania bismarkii

Guzmania bismarkii is a large, rarely seen Guzmania described by Werner Rauh in 1984 from Peru and known mainly from Rauh's own collections and a handful of botanic-garden plants. GBIF holds no wild records and no measured climate is available, so the conditions here are drawn from what warm-growing Peruvian Guzmania of humid forest need; treat them as a starting point and watch the plant.

At home, aim for

Day Warm-growingTargets 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

Presumed epiphyte, or occasionally terrestrial on steep banks, in humid forest on the eastern Andean slopes of Peru. No habitat note is attached to any record, so this is inferred from the genus and Rauh's other Peruvian collections.

No elevation is recorded; the species is presumed to come from lowland to premontane forest below about 1500 m.

Peru

🔒 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.