Tillandsia schiedeana
A clumping, lightly scaled air plant with stiff, thin, often reddish-tinged leaves and a tall spike of yellow flowers, found from western and southern Mexico through Central America to the Greater Antilles, Colombia and Venezuela. It grows in open, seasonally dry forest and on cacti and scrub on sunny slopes, so in cultivation it wants strong light, fast drying and a real dry season rather than terrarium conditions.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte of open tropical deciduous and semi-deciduous forest, also growing on columnar cacti, Bursera and other shrubs on steep dry slopes in semi-arid country. It forms mounds and clumps on exposed branches where it gets strong sun and constant air movement.
Literature gives about 230–1700 m (750–5500 ft); the few GBIF records with an elevation span 129–1723 m, median 1083 m, so the two agree.
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