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I bought this from Cotswold Garden Flowers earlier in the year. Large grey rosettes look wonderful. The leaves are lined with pale orange spines
that detach easily, especially of there is a convenient hand to stick into! It sits in the greenhouse, and I don't move it around much. Eventually it should produce a branched flower spike covered in distinctive red bracts. I bought it as Ochagavia carnea , because it resembled a form of that species I used to grow, with long silvery leaves, though they were a lot thinner than this. This plant was later identified as Puya spathacea. It comes from Argentina, and has striking red flower spikes, bracts and buds, and electric blue/green flowers. |
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| 11th August 2008 | ||
