Tillandsia Leiboldiana is an epiphytic species native to Costa Rica and Mexico, where it grows and develops in forests and wetlands at latitudes ranging from 0 to 1200 metres above sea level.
Tillandsia Andreana is a saxicolous species, rarely epiphytic, native to Colombia, where it grows and thrives in cliff areas at latitudes ranging from 500 to 1800 metres above sea level.
This variety of air plant or tillandsia balbisiana is a spreading plant from Florida, the West Indies and Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela. It grows at altitudes from sea level to 1,500 metres and is usually found on tree branches.