Tillandsia roland-gosselinii
An epiphytic Tillandsia endemic to the Pacific slope of western and southern Mexico, from Jalisco and Colima to Guerrero and coastal Oaxaca. It lives in seasonally dry lowland forest with a hot, rainy summer and a long, almost rainless winter and spring. Several cultivars have been named from it, including 'Fireworks', 'Flagstaff', 'Madre' and 'Padre'.
Where it grows wild
Records come from lowland and foothill country along the Pacific slope, including roadside forest near Colima and Manzanillo, the coast near Huatulco and Pinotepa Nacional in Oaxaca, and a limestone slope with oak woodland near Zihuatanejo. This is seasonally dry tropical forest, where the trees drop much of their leaf in the dry season and the epiphytes sit in bright light.
Records with an altitude run from about 170 to 1,330 m, most below 500 m.
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