Guzmania leonard-kentiana

Guzmania leonard-kentiana was described by Harry Luther and Karen Norton in 2009 from Peru and is known essentially from its type material and a few cultivated plants. GBIF holds no wild records, so the conditions here are generalised from humid-forest Guzmania of the eastern Peruvian Andes; treat them as a starting point.

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 terrestrial on mossy banks, in humid forest on the Amazon-facing slopes of Peru. No habitat note is attached to any record; this is inferred from the genus and where recent Peruvian Guzmania have been found.

No elevation is recorded; most recently described Peruvian Guzmania come from premontane forest between roughly 800 and 2000 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.