Bromelia hemisphericaLam.

WFO wfo-0001327979 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bromelia hemispherica, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. a Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-01-25 / obs. 111738292
Bromelia hemispherica, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. b Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56766819
Bromelia hemispherica, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. c Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52152044
Bromelia hemispherica, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. d Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50669896
Bromelia hemispherica, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. e Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36126094
Bromelia hemispherica, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. f Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28442732
Bromelia hemispherica, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. g Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 26123586
Bromelia hemispherica, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. h Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22522405

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Where it actually grows measured, from 40 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 9.9 °C 17.7 °C 18.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.8 °C 30.0 °C 34.4 °C
Annual rainfall 753 mm 763 mm 1,222 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 6 mm 6 mm 26 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 40 research-grade observations of Bromelia hemispherica that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.