01/10/2025
This is one of the strangest and rarest plants on the planet, in the bromeliad family, the puya Raimondi, “Queen of the Andes”. It grows up to 12 feet wide, reaches up to 15 meters, or 50 feet tall. . It usually takes around 80 -100 years to flower, blooms once in a lifetime, for a whole year, producing 8,000 to 20,000 blooms in a 3 -month period. No other plant blooms so long, or so prolifically. It then spreads its 6-12 MILLION seeds and (dies by self-combustion.?) This is on the high-rise of Peru and Bolivia.
Photo: Waldemar Niclevicz
