Puya Raimondii, Quebrada Raria, Cordillera Blanca
La Puya Raimondii, the largest member of the bromeliads, or piña familia! It reaches 2m in height and takes 100 years to grow. It then flowers by producing a hugh 10m spike which is covered with 20,000 flowers for 3 months and then the plant dies! The puyas flower in groups every 3-4 years (not this year, then.) The giant bromeliad is one of the world´s most ancient plant species and is considered a living fossil, found only in a few isolated areas of the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes.
posted by Lou @ 7:31 PM
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