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Vriesea incurvata

A tank bromeliad endemic to the Atlantic Forest of south and south-eastern Brazil, recorded from São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. It has been used widely in breeding, with many named cultivars, and a variety inflata with an inflated urn is also grown. Treat it as a humid, bright-shade epiphyte from a subtropical forest with warm summers and mild winters.

Vriesea incurvata
Photo: Polypompholyx, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil. Like most Vriesea of this region it is grown and generally treated as an epiphyte on trees in humid forest, holding water in its leaf rosette; the sources found give no species-specific account of its microhabitat.

No elevation range was found in the sources, and GBIF has no usable wild records, so none could be measured.

Brazil (São Paulo)Brazil (Paraná)Brazil (Santa Catarina)Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul)

🔒 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.