Tillandsia tricolor is an epiphytic species, native to Costa Rica, although it is also commonly seen in southern Mexico, at latitudes ranging from 600 to 2000 metres above sea level, where it lives in relatively humid and not very lush tropical and subtropical forests.
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.