Puya raimondii seeds grow into the Queen of the Andes the largest bromeliad in the world, native to the puna and rocky highlands of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia, at altitudes of 3,2004,800 m. Named after Antonio Raimondi (18241890), the great Italian-born Peruvian geographer and naturalist who first discovered it in the Cordillera Blanca (now Huascarn National Park, Peru) in 1867. The statistics of this plant are staggering: the rosette can reach 34 m across; the monocarpic flower spike grows to 810 m (occasionally 12 m) tall; it carries up to 8,00020,000 white flowers; it takes 80150 years to reach flowering maturity; and then it dies after flowering once. The world’s slowest monocarpic plant. Protected in Peru and Bolivia. Subfamily Puyoideae. Family Bromeliaceae.
Full sun; very well-drained, rocky or gritty soils; very drought-tolerant; cool to very cold puna conditions one of the most cold-tolerant bromeliads in existence. An extremely slow-growing long-term project for committed collectors.
Puya raimondii the Queen of the Andes is one of the most extraordinary plants on earth: the world’s largest bromeliad, growing for a century or more in the high Andean puna before producing a single, towering flower spike of up to 10 metres carrying thousands of flowers, then dying, having flowered only once in a lifetime.
IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.
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