page_title: Guzmania musaica
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Guzmania musaica / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Inflorescence of Guzmania musaica at Jardin Botanic of Montreal, Canada
context_page_description: Guzmania musaica is a plant species in the genus Guzmania. This species is native to Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia.
context_section_description: Guzmania musaica is a stemless, evergreen, epiphytic perennial plant that can reach a height of 20–40 centimetres (7.9–15.7 in). Leaves are about two feet long, simple, with entire margins, spineless, light green with reddish and dark green transverse striations. In the central rosette of leaves grows a long stem topped by a beautiful inflorescence of pink-red bracts with many waxy tubular yellow flowers arranged in spikes. The plant blooms from June to August. The fruits are septicidal capsules. After it has produced its fruits, the plant dies.
caption: Inflorescence of Guzmania musaica
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