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Vriesea heliconioides

Vriesea heliconioides is a small lowland tank epiphyte ranging from southern Mexico and Guatemala to Colombia and Amazonian Brazil. Its red-and-yellow bracts give it its name. It needs warm, humid, dappled conditions all year, with no cool rest.

Vriesea heliconioides
Photo: Maarten Sepp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Specimens come from humid lowland forest, seasonally flooded forest and lagoon margins, riverbanks and secondary forest. It grows on trees in the understory to mid-canopy.

Recorded elevations are 125–400 m. It is a lowland species.

MexicoGuatemalaPanamaCosta RicaColombiaVenezuelaBrazil North

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, unmodified.