Hechtia glomerata
Guapilla is a spiny, clump-forming terrestrial bromeliad of dry rocky slopes and thornscrub from southern Texas through eastern Mexico to Guatemala. Treat it like a hardy agave: full sun, sharp drainage, generous water in the warm wet season and a drier, cooler winter.
Where it grows wild
Forms dense colonies of stiff, toothed rosettes on rocky, often limestone slopes in thornscrub and dry open woodland; some forms spread by stolons. Habitat detail is generalised from the genus and the measured sites.
Recorded 16–2658 m, median 1136 m; from the Rio Grande lowlands up into the central Mexican highlands.
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