Neoregelia cruenta(Graham) L.B.Sm.

WFO wfo-0000476805 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Neoregelia cruenta, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. a Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-08 / obs. 169400674
Neoregelia cruenta, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. b Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169397084
Neoregelia cruenta, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. c Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168260139
Neoregelia cruenta, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. d Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161553770
Neoregelia cruenta, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. e Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162509555
Neoregelia cruenta, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. f Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162511867
Neoregelia cruenta, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. g Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151315569
Neoregelia cruenta, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes
fig. h Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151315070

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Neoregelia cruenta is native: Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast Brazil NortheastBrazil Southeast
Native distribution of Neoregelia cruenta, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Brazil Northeast BZE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Southeast BZL

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 121 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 17.2 °C 18.9 °C 20.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.8 °C 28.1 °C 30.2 °C
Annual rainfall 887 mm 1,159 mm 1,828 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 121 mm 144 mm 224 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 121 research-grade observations of Neoregelia cruenta 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.

Also published as 16 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.

  • Aregelia cruenta (Graham) Mez
  • Aregelia longibracteata (Mez) Mez
  • Aregelia rubrospinosa Mez
  • Billbergia cruenta (Graham) Hook.
  • Bromelia cruenta Graham
  • Karatas cruenta (Graham) G.Nicholson
  • Neoregelia longebracteata (Mez) L.B.Sm.
  • Neoregelia longibracteata (Mez) L.B.Sm.
  • Neoregelia rubrospinosa (Mez) L.B.Sm.
  • Nidularium cruentum (Graham) Regel
  • Nidularium laurentii f. immaculatum Regel
  • Nidularium laurentii var. immaculatum Regel
  • Nidularium longebracteatum Mez
  • Nidularium longibracteatum Mez
  • Regelia cruenta (Graham) Lindm.
  • Tillandsia cruenta hort. ex Lem.

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. 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.