Werauhia umbrosa
A tank bromeliad from mid-elevation wet forests of Costa Rica, Panama and western Colombia, recorded mostly around 1,200 to 2,000 m. As the name suggests it is a plant of shadier positions than many relatives, so it suits a mild, humid, bright-shade setup with a steady year-round water supply in its central cup.
Where it grows wild
Like most Werauhia it grows as an epiphyte in wet premontane and lower montane forest, holding rainwater in a rosette tank. Species detail is thin, so habitat is inferred from the genus and the recorded sites.
Recorded from 650 to 2,800 m, median 1,500 m, in the cloud-forest belt of the Central American cordilleras and the Colombian Andes.
🔒 Growing it like that
The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:
Grow Werauhia umbrosa? Add it to a free garden and its full profile opens. Pro opens all 38,374 profiles in the library, plants and fungi.
More Werauhia
Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app.