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Rivas, Nicaragua
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A large species, but here the reddish stems and bracts are fading with age. Northeastern Colombia.
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A detailed view of this large bromeliad from the Condor Range of Ecuador and Peru.
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Bromeliad flower from Volcan Mombacho, Nicaragua.
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Native to the highlands of northern South America. Photo from the Papallacta Hotsprings area of Ecuador.
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The Yellow Flowered Chagual of Chile.
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A species reported from the mountains of Colombia. Photo from El Dorado Lodge in the Santa Marta Range.
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Known as Queen's Tears for an inflorescence which is just beginning to appear. Mainly an Amazon species. Bogota Botanical Gardens.
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A giant bromeliad which graces the highlands from Mexico to Honduras. May be as much as two decades old before these flowers appear. Lotusland, Montecito, California.
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Photo from Iguazu National Park, northeastern Argentina. Native here and in adjacent Brazil and Paraguay.
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A upland species from Colombia to northern Peru. Here in the Condor Range on the Peru-Ecuador border.
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Native to Costa Rica. Photo from the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens.
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Botaniska trädgården, Göteborg
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Trädgårdsföreningen, Göteborg
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Randers
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Væksthuset, Botanisk Have, Århus
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Væksthuset, Botanisk Have, Århus
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Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens, Australia
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Botanisk Have Århus
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Væksthuset, Botanisk Have, Århus
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Florida, United States
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Bastimentos, Bocas del Toro, Panam
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Puya coerulea var. coeruleasilver puya. In Chile, its home, silver puya grows in low valleys away from the immediate coast in a climate similar to that of California. Extremely drought-tolerant. The plant photographed grows in a private garden in Berkeley, CA.