Guzmania globosa
An epiphytic tank bromeliad from the very wet Pacific rainforests of Colombia and north-west Ecuador, with scattered records on the eastern Andean slopes of Ecuador and Peru. Collectors describe green inflorescences with red bracts. It grows mostly below about 1200 m in forests that are wet all year and full of epiphytes. Give it warm, humid, shaded conditions and keep its central cup filled with soft water.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte in very wet tropical and premontane forest ('bosque muy húmedo', 'bosque pluvial'), mostly primary forest, sometimes disturbed. It grows on trees along rivers and on steep slopes, and one label records it on mounds of moss. In the Nangaritza valley of Ecuador it was found in moss-laden forest on limestone and shale slopes.
The Colombian checklist gives 0–1150 m. Specimens range from about 80 m in Chocó to about 1570 m in Peru, with rare higher outliers.
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