Bromelia pinguinL.

ananaspinguin

WFO wfo-0000341926 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bromelia pinguin, photographed by David Umanzor
fig. a David Umanzor, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-13 / obs. 194085440
Bromelia pinguin, photographed by stinger
fig. b stinger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187943476
Bromelia pinguin, photographed by Darren Oh
fig. c Darren Oh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 166492797
Bromelia pinguin, photographed by Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil
fig. d Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138957079
Bromelia pinguin, photographed by Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil
fig. e Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139585356
Bromelia pinguin, photographed by Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil
fig. f Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138343059
Bromelia pinguin, photographed by Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil
fig. g Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138226764
Bromelia pinguin, photographed by Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil
fig. h Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138242119

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Bromelia pinguin is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. Mexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPuerto RicoSouthwest CaribbeanSurinameVenezuela Cayman Is.Leeward Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Bromelia pinguin, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Puerto Rico PUE
Southwest Caribbean SWC
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 90 in flower of 552 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Bromelia pinguin observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 90 of 552 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,001 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.6 °C 18.7 °C 24.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.1 °C 30.3 °C 35.5 °C
Annual rainfall 734 mm 1,279 mm 2,339 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 6 mm 82 mm 310 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,001 research-grade observations of Bromelia pinguin 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Agallostachys fastuosa (Lindl.) Beer
  • Agallostachys pinguin (L.) Beer
  • Ananas pinguin (L.) Gaertn.
  • Ananas pinguin Trew
  • Bromelia fastuosa Lindl.
  • Bromelia ignea Beer
  • Bromelia peguin L.
  • Bromelia sepiaria Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Karatas penguin Mill.
  • Karatas pinguin (L.) Mill.

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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.