Guzmania laeta
Guzmania laeta is a Colombian cloud-forest species described by Harry Luther in 2000, recorded almost entirely in the wet western Andes of Antioquia and Chocó between about 1300 and 2450 m. It comes from cool, saturated air that rains nearly every month, so it wants a cool-growing, very humid setup rather than the warm windowsill most Guzmania hybrids accept.
Where it grows wild
Epiphyte of very wet montane and cloud forest on the western Cordillera Occidental; the records sit in the Urrao and Frontino areas of Antioquia where mist and rain persist most of the year. Habitat is inferred from the localities and the genus, not from a published field note.
1325 to 2450 m from 46 records, median 1660 m: upper premontane to montane cloud forest.
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