Guzmania dissitiflora
Guzmania dissitiflora is an epiphytic bromeliad of wet forests from Costa Rica and Panama to western Colombia and north-western Ecuador. It is recorded mostly at about 700 to 1,600 m, among heavy epiphyte loads in tall, dense forest. Grow it as an intermediate-warm, shade-loving tank bromeliad.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe it in tall, very dense, well-conserved wet forest with abundant epiphytes in Putumayo, in primary rainforest at San Ramón in Costa Rica, in wet forest in Esmeraldas, and on forested slopes in Colón, Panama. It grows as a tank-forming epiphyte on trunks and branches.
Recorded elevations run from 50 to 2,780 m, with a median of 1,150 m. The 2,780 m record is a plant cultivated in Quito, so the wild range is roughly 50 to 1,600 m, with most records between 700 and 1,200 m.
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