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Puya cayata, flowering in the landscape

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Saturday at 01:47 AM4 days

Tropiflora grew a few of these from seeds from an unidentified herbarium specimen, "Puya species cayata Ecuador HL 1-08". Harry Luther, RIP, said that this is a high-altitude plant and shouldn't do well in Florida. However, it seems to do quite well for me, at sea level, and has flowered for me twice now since I got it in 2009. No offsets so far, but it self-sets plenty of seed.

The plant in the photos grew to over a meter across, and the inflorescence reached over two meters, taller than me. I have a few others in the ground, but none are quite as big as this one. Tropiflora is still selling it: https://tropiflora.com/products/puya-species-cayata

I sowed some of the seeds from this plant, and they germinated quickly.

I think this is an attractive landscape plant and suspect it may grow much further north and handle a little frost if the herbarium specimen was correctly located.