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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.
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The blue-flowered Chagual in the mountains of central Chile.
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Known as the Cardinal Airplant, this bromeliad is found through much of the Neotropics.
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Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda
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Known as the Pineapple Dyckia, and reported mainly from southeastern Brazil. Lotusland, Montecito, California.
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Granada, Nicaragua
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Paraso, Panam, Panam
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Red bracts and white flowers, from the El Dorado Lodge, Santa Marta Range, northeastern Colombia.
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Cayenne, French Guiana
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Pocone, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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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.
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A terrestrial bromeliad, found from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. Adapted to both humid and arid conditions. The berries are edible. Lotusland, Montecito, California.
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Native to the Guianas of northern South America. Introduced early into Europe as Flaming Sword. Bloedel Conservatory, Vancouver.
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Pocone, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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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.
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St, Simon's Island
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Granada, Nicaragua