Vriesea fosteriana
A large vase bromeliad endemic to the Atlantic Forest of south-eastern Brazil. Its broad leaves are banded crosswise in brown to wine-red, and it produces a tall spike of yellowish flowers spotted with wine-red. In the wild it grows mostly on granite inselbergs and rock outcrops at about 400–1,400 m in EspÃrito Santo, often in full sun, and sometimes as an epiphyte, so it wants bright light, cool nights and a winter drier than the summer.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe it as a rock-dwelling herb on granite inselbergs and outcrops, often in full sun at pasture edges and viewpoints, or in partial shade at the margins of forest islands on the rock. It is also recorded as a facultative epiphyte on Bombacaceae trees, and occasionally on the ground in humus in shade.
Specimens with an elevation lie between 400 and 1,400 m, most of them at about 950–1,250 m, as at Forno Grande, Morro do Sal and Pedra do Cabrito.
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