Guzmania teuscheri
A Guzmania bromeliad of the wet premontane and cloud forests on the Pacific slope of the Andes in Ecuador and far south-western Colombia, mostly between about 1,300 and 1,900 m. Grow it like other cloud-forest Guzmania: cool to intermediate temperatures, bright filtered light, constantly humid, moving air and soft water in the cup. Little specific horticultural information has been published.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium and field records place it in wet premontane and montane rain forest on the western Andean slope, including Mindo, Maquipucuna, Otonga and Los Ilinizas in Ecuador and La Planada in Nariño, Colombia, with a few records from moist coastal hill forest (garúa forest) in Manabà and Guayas. The records rarely say how it grows. Most Guzmania are epiphytes on mossy trunks and branches, so that is assumed here.
GBIF altitudes run from about 500 m (Cerro Montecristi garúa forest) to about 1,900 m, and most fall between 1,300 and 1,850 m.
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