Guzmania mucronata
An epiphytic tank bromeliad endemic to the cloud forests of northern Venezuela. It is found in the Coastal Cordillera, from the Sierra de San Luis and Sierra de Aroa to Henry Pittier National Park, Colonia Tovar and El Junquito. It grows at about 1200–2000 m, so it wants cool, humid, bright-shaded conditions, not the hot living-room treatment given to commercial Guzmania hybrids.
Where it grows wild
It grows on trees in primary montane cloud forest, where the canopy is often in mist, the air is saturated and branches are covered in moss and other epiphytes. Plants hold water in the central cup of the rosette.
Specimen labels give 1200–1800 m in the Sierra de Aroa, 1450 m in the Sierra de San Luis, 1500–1800 m at Rancho Grande, and about 1900–1980 m near El Junquito and between Maracay and Choroní.
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