Guzmania ventricosa
A cloud-forest bromeliad from Venezuela, collected mainly around Colonia Tovar, El Junquito and Rancho Grande in the Coastal Range, and near Boconó in the Trujillo Andes. It grows mostly as an epiphyte, sometimes on the ground, in cloud forest and at its edges. It needs cool, constantly humid, softly lit conditions. Little else about it is documented.
Where it grows wild
Labels describe cloud forest, the edge of cloud forest at El Junquito, and cloud forest with the palm Ceroxylon interruptum along the Costa de Maya trail. Most plants were epiphytes, with some terrestrial. Forest edges give it somewhat brighter, broken light than the deep interior.
Labelled records run from about 1,500 m at Rancho Grande to 2,200 m in the Misisí mountains, and nineteenth-century collections near Colonia Tovar are noted at about 2,100 m (7,000 ft).
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