Puya lanata seeds grow into a woolly-tomentum bromeliad native to the wet tropical biome of the northern Peruvian Andes from the Cajamarca region, where this product’s provenance is noted. The epithet lanata means ‘woolly’, referring to the dense woolly (lanate) tomentum of fine hairs covering the stems, leaf undersurfaces and inflorescence providing insulation and moisture retention in the cold, exposed Andean habitats. A member of subfamily Puyoideae forming a terrestrial rosette of stiff, spiny-margined leaves adapted to rocky Andean slopes at high altitude. Family Bromeliaceae.
Full sun; well-drained rocky or peaty Andean soils; drought-tolerant; cool to cold Andean conditions of the Cajamarca highlands, Peru.
Puya lanata is the woolly puya of the northern Peruvian Andes its distinctive dense woolly tomentum providing crucial insulation against the cold and intense UV radiation of its high-altitude Cajamarca habitat, a collector’s bromeliad from the spectacular montane flora of northern Peru.
IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.
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