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@ Tropicallvr. Quite a few, actually, if you travel towards the cloud forests. Quito is technically a paramo, although with the rain we've been wetter than normal. Heliconia will grow here, but very reluctantly at my elevation - better in the valley proper. The QBG has a nice collection. Which species were you interested in?

@basjoofriend. My map pin is not exactly where I live (deliberately so) - I am actually about 500 meters in elevation further up the flank of the volcano. I have tried Basjoo and Prata in the yard of my apartment, and one cold night did them in. I don't think it's my temperature so much as the very real lack of available oxygen that killed them, though. I'm acclimated now, but I used to get terrible altitude sickness living here.