Guzmania tarapotina
A tank bromeliad of the wet eastern Andean slopes from southern Ecuador through Peru, including Tarapoto in San Martín, which gives it its name, to Bolivia. It is recorded at about 200–2,440 m, mostly in premontane forest around 900 m. Grow it like other forest Guzmanias: warm, humid, in dappled light, with water in the central cup and an airy mix.
Where it grows wild
It grows in humid premontane and lower montane forest on the Amazonian slope of the Andes, including sandy-soiled lower montane forest in Junín and forest along roads near the Podocarpus park buffer. Most Guzmania are epiphytes on trunks and branches, and this species is treated so here, although the specimen labels seen do not state its position.
About 56 GBIF records give elevations of 200–2,440 m, with a median of about 900 m, in the foothill and premontane belt.
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