Guzmania weberbaueri
A medium-sized tank bromeliad of the wet eastern Andean foothills of Ecuador and Peru, about 1 m tall in flower, with a red upper stem and bracts and yellow flowers. Herbarium labels place it in very wet premontane and lower montane forest at roughly 950–1900 m, growing both on trees and on the ground. Grow it like other foothill Guzmanias: warm days, mild nights, shade, humid moving air and a tank that never dries out.
Where it grows wild
Specimens come from premontane rain forest, very wet forest and lower montane forest on the eastern slopes of the Andes, especially around Mera, the Pastaza valley between Baños and Puyo, Llanganates and Sangay national parks in Ecuador, and the Sandia and Cusco (Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge) areas of Peru. One Peruvian label says it grows both as an epiphyte and from the ground, always in very moist places including boggy spots; an Ecuadorian label records it on a tree. Several collections are from forest edges, road cuts and disturbed forest.
Specimen labels give 950–1900 m, most between 1070 and 1550 m.
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