Vriesea longicaulis
A shade-loving bromeliad endemic to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, growing mostly as an epiphyte on trunks in montane and cloud forest. It forms a funnel-shaped rosette of plain green leaves and sends up a tall stalk of yellow flowers. It needs cool-to-warm, humid, shaded conditions.
Where it grows wild
Shaded interiors of dense montane rainforest, cloud forest and semi-deciduous forest, mostly epiphytic on trunks at about 2 m, sometimes on the ground or among quartzite outcrops in moist forest patches within campo rupestre. The specimen notes call it shade-loving.
Specimen elevations run from about 350 m to 2100 m, with a median near 1250 m and most between about 670 and 1660 m.
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