Hi there,

If you are familiar with bromeliad genera, these natural types, with flowers coming from just about any angle from the stem, are invariably Guzmania or Mezobromelia and I suggest Mezobromelia for this. The species could be harder to id though but could be M capituligera. There are Guznmanias that look like these too like daniellii and variegata nad the difference is in the flowers - nectar scales at the base of the Mezobromelia petals (they used to be Vrieseas!)

If you are keen to get these habitat plants identified, you can post the images on Brom-L where various taxonomists might hazard a guess (http://brom-l.florapix.nl/)

Your other ones were probably Guzmania species, possibly squarrosa and one like plants in cultivation as pennellii. Colombia has a wealth of Guzmania species so without references identification would be difficult.

Thank you for posting images of habitat - I will always be keen to see them.

Cheers, Pedro

Thank you that is very helpfull information. I´ll get to work.