4 July 2014 ~ Puya raimondii

Listening to:  Little Feat and Friends ~ This land is Your Land

Happy Independence Day!

Yesterday I went to the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden.

 

A rare South American Puya raimondii plant, known for taking up to 100 years to bloom, has started to pop in Berkeley after just 24, which may be a world record.

It will bloom for a month, and when it peaks, it will show tens of thousands of white flowers at the tips of each horn-shaped branch, like. The bloom is an event that happens just once in its lifetime.

A rare and endangered species, the Puya raimondii is called the Queen of the Andes



 It's really tall and I can't wait to go back to see the white flowers in bloom.