Tillandsia lucida
A soft-leaved, green, mesic Tillandsia from the cloud and oak forests of southern Mexico and northern Central America. Herbarium labels place it mostly at 1,000–1,800 m in cloud forest, oak and pine–oak forest and shade-coffee farms. Grow it like a cloud-forest air plant: bright but not scorching light, mild temperatures with cool nights, and frequent watering in summer with a drier, cooler winter.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe it as an epiphyte in bosque mesófilo de montaña (cloud forest), oak and pine–oak forest with Liquidambar and Carpinus, riparian forest in ravines, and shade trees in coffee plantations. It grows on trunks and branches in fairly open, humid forest rather than deep shade.
Georeferenced specimens mostly lie at about 1,000–1,800 m (range about 640–2,000 m), in Veracruz, Puebla, Oaxaca, Chiapas and the Nicaraguan highlands.
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