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| − | Puya chilensis, Molina (Pitcairnia coarctata, Pers., and P. chilensis, Lodd.). Becoming 4-5 ft. or more high, sometimes branching: lvs. in tufts, 2-4 ft. long, very narrow, often recurved, the margins armed with strong recurved spines or thorns, glaucous: blossoms in a branching, hoary, bracted infl. rising 3-5 ft. from the top of the caudex, the fls. large (2 in. across), sessile or nearly so, the 3 lanceolate sepals greenish and the obovate- oblong much-exserted petals yellow or greenish yellow, the 6 erect stamens shorter than the petals, the stigma 3-branched. Chile | + | Puya chilensis, Molina (Pitcairnia coarctata, Pers., and P. chilensis, Lodd.). Becoming 4-5 ft. or more high, sometimes branching: lvs. in tufts, 2-4 ft. long, very narrow, often recurved, the margins armed with strong recurved spines or thorns, glaucous: blossoms in a branching, hoary, bracted infl. rising 3-5 ft. from the top of the caudex, the fls. large (2 in. across), sessile or nearly so, the 3 lanceolate sepals greenish and the obovate- oblong much-exserted petals yellow or greenish yellow, the 6 erect stamens shorter than the petals, the stigma 3-branched. Chile.—A striking and mammoth bromeliad, making a yucca-like mass of foliage and projecting above it a very showy infl. |
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Read about Puya chilensis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Puya chilensis, Molina (Pitcairnia coarctata, Pers., and P. chilensis, Lodd.). Becoming 4-5 ft. or more high, sometimes branching: lvs. in tufts, 2-4 ft. long, very narrow, often recurved, the margins armed with strong recurved spines or thorns, glaucous: blossoms in a branching, hoary, bracted infl. rising 3-5 ft. from the top of the caudex, the fls. large (2 in. across), sessile or nearly so, the 3 lanceolate sepals greenish and the obovate- oblong much-exserted petals yellow or greenish yellow, the 6 erect stamens shorter than the petals, the stigma 3-branched. Chile.—A striking and mammoth bromeliad, making a yucca-like mass of foliage and projecting above it a very showy infl.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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