Guzmania

Guzmania is a kind of plants of the family of the Broméliacée S which includes/understands approximately 110 long-lived species, generally épiphyte S, more rarely terrestrial, originating in the tropical Forêt S of the America central-Southerner. These plants have flexible ribboned sheets, arched, laid out in rivet washer, of color green shining, forming a floral pole made up of Bractée S scarlets or orange sharp, which carry small yellow or white tubulous flowers, gathered out of ears or panicles, flowering in winter or at the beginning of spring. They can reach of 20 cm 1 m from top.

The name of the kind was created in homage to Anastasio Guzmán, naturalist Spanish of the XVIIIe century.

Principal cultivated species

Guzmania berteroniana (Schult. & Schult. F.) Mez - Originating in Puerto Rico, cettte species carries a 40 cm height drawn up floral pole approximately, with bractées oval dark red; the flowers are of yellow color.

Guzmania devansayana E.Morr. - This species has sheets striated with red which reach 60 cm length, bractées bright red and white flowers.

Guzmania lingulata (L.) Mez - This species which grows spontaneously with the Brésil has many varieties; its sheets lancéolées and at the whole edges, with the frayed and relatively stiff limb, have up to 45 cm length; they are green shining on their face higher and reddish on their lower face; the small flowers white-yellowish are gathered in a inflorescence carried by a pole from 20 to 30 cm, almost masked by the bractées red ones; they flower in spring and in summer only once in their existence; the eyes which develop with the base can transplanted beings.

Guzmania minor Mez - Plant épiphyte rustic, resistant in Apartment, long-lived always green, it flowers only once in its existence; the lancéolées sheets are of green color; the flowers gathered out of ear in the center of the rivet washer of sheets are of red or orange color.

Guzmania monostachya (L.) Rusby ex Mez - Originating in Central America, the Brazil and Florida, high approximately 40 cm, it carries narrow and arched sheets; yellow flowers gathered out of emergent ear hardly approximately 40 cm bractées long.

Guzmania musaica (Linden & Andre) Mez - Originating in the Panama and the Colombia, it is characterized by its bractées of pink color which recover hampent floral with the yellow flowers.

Guzmania sanguinea Andre - Species with the lancéolées sheets green frays of red and yellow, the bractées red ones form a rivet washer from where emerges the central inflorescence made up of flowers white-yellowish.

Guzmania zahnii (Hook. F.) Mez - Species originating in Colombia, with narrow sheets, yellow frays of red of 40 Cl length approximately, at the red end; the flowers pale yellow are surrounded by bractées scarlet.

Culture

The culture of these plants requires a Serre hot and wet with a filtering of the solar light and a temperature always maintained with the top of 18 °C.

One cultivates them out of pot or container of glass, with Arrosage S regular, abundant in summer and more reduced in winter; it is advisable to fill, once a month, the central cut formed by the sheets with fresh and noncalcareous water, and in hot season to frequently vaporize the sheets.

For the vegetative period, the Fertilization is done using liquid manure once a month; the roots are reduced and do not impose repotting.

The multiplication is made in spring, by detaching from the plant mother the eyes appeared at the base once they were enracinés, and by transplanting them in pots filled with Terreau for broméliacées, or of the universal compost, added with Tourbe and Sable.

Enemies

the excess of water causes the rotting of the roots, while the sheets brown and are softened.

a too dry air and the lack of moisture can desiccate the points of the sheets.

Of the parasites like the red spiders and the Puceron S can cause deformations of the sheets and flowers.

Internal bonds

Plant épiphyte
Floriculture
House plant

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