Tillandsia lampropoda
An epiphytic Tillandsia from the pine-oak and cloud forests of southern Mexico and Central America, most often recorded in Chiapas, Honduras and Nicaragua. It grows on trees at middle elevations, sometimes in large colonies, and has a showy red inflorescence. It needs bright light, warm days, cooler nights and a drier winter.
Where it grows wild
Pine-oak forest, oak forest, pine forest and cloud forest, including moist mixed forest on slopes and rain-shadowed cloud forest. It is an epiphyte, sometimes found on the ground after falling, and observers report trees laden with colonies.
GBIF records with altitude run from about 500 to 3,000 m, with a median of about 1,450 m.
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