New Specie of puya

 

This is a new Specie of puya.

This is the story I got:

The seed came from a herbarium sheets that was being look at for identification of a new specie.

Seeing some seed on the herbarium sheets, the person though he would try and see if they would grow, guess what, it did and this is one of thoese plants.

I do not know how old it was or how many seed was on the herbarium sheets. I did see only about 6 or 8 plant from that seed.

The tag reads: Puya species cayata Ecuador HL 1-08

Puya mirabilis

This Puya can get larger if you let it and I do have one in a 3 gallon pot. But if you keep it in a small pot it will stay small for a longer time and flower like this one is doing.

I don't like this plant much brcause it has small spines that come off easy and are hard to remove plus the flowers do not last that long. It will make seeds with out any help if you would like more of them. Oh no.