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Pitcairnia feliciana

Pitcairnia feliciana
Photo: NMNH, CC0

Pitcairnia feliciana is a West African bromeliad from the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea, where it grows on sandstone rock outcrops. It is the only bromeliad not native to the Americas and is rarely grown, so care advice is drawn from the general care of Pitcairnia rock-dwelling bromeliads.

Family
Bromeliaceae (Pineapple family)
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Water thoroughly when the top of the potting mix dries, and keep the central cup of the rosette lightly filled in its natural growing style.
Soil
Fast-draining mix of coarse grit, bark and a little peat or leaf mould; it grows on rock in the wild.
Temperature
18 to 30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Guinea
Climate
wet tropical

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Pitcairnia feliciana is a species of bromeliad endemic to Guinea, West Africa, and is the only bromeliad not native to the Americas. It can be found growing on sandstone outcrops (inselbergs) of the Fouta Djallon highlands in Middle Guinea.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pitcairnia feliciana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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