Tillandsia orogenes
A Central American epiphytic Tillandsia of the mid-elevation mountains of Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, recorded mostly between about 1,300 and 1,900 m. It lives with warm days, cool nights and a pronounced dry season from December to April, then heavy summer rains, so it rewards bright light, strong air movement and a drier, cooler winter.
Where it grows wild
Wild records cluster in the mid-elevation highlands of northern Central America, the zone of pine-oak and lower montane forest. Species-level habitat notes were not available in the sources consulted; like most mid-elevation Tillandsia it grows as an epiphyte on tree branches, where it gets bright but broken light and constant air movement.
129 wild GBIF records span 700 to 1,900 m, median about 1,490 m; most sites lie between 1,300 and 1,700 m.
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