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Puyas and pitcairnias are generally found in collections of bromeliads and are usually grown in moist tropical houses. The native home of the puyas is on the steep stony slopes of the Cordilleras at high altitudes with little other vegetation for company except some species of cereus. This would indicate that drier and cooler conditions, or such as are given cacti and succulents, would suit them best, yet they thrive equally well in the tropical house. Indeed, the writer has found most of the family Bromeliaceae very accommodating not only to temperature and moisture conditions, but to soils and methods of growing them; for example many of the tillandsias may be grown on blocks of wood as epiphytes, yet they do equally well grown in pots. But what perhaps is more remarkable is the fact that several of the stronger-growing bromeliads appear to grow equally well either in a strong loamy mixture, or a mixture of chopped fern root and charcoal. The writer has pineapples growing in both mixtures with equal success. But the most rational treatment is to give all the bromeliads conditions and soil similar to the environment in which they are found in their native habitat, yet according to the experience of the writer few plants possess such remarkable adaptability to changed conditions as do these plants. (E.J. Canning.)
 
Puyas and pitcairnias are generally found in collections of bromeliads and are usually grown in moist tropical houses. The native home of the puyas is on the steep stony slopes of the Cordilleras at high altitudes with little other vegetation for company except some species of cereus. This would indicate that drier and cooler conditions, or such as are given cacti and succulents, would suit them best, yet they thrive equally well in the tropical house. Indeed, the writer has found most of the family Bromeliaceae very accommodating not only to temperature and moisture conditions, but to soils and methods of growing them; for example many of the tillandsias may be grown on blocks of wood as epiphytes, yet they do equally well grown in pots. But what perhaps is more remarkable is the fact that several of the stronger-growing bromeliads appear to grow equally well either in a strong loamy mixture, or a mixture of chopped fern root and charcoal. The writer has pineapples growing in both mixtures with equal success. But the most rational treatment is to give all the bromeliads conditions and soil similar to the environment in which they are found in their native habitat, yet according to the experience of the writer few plants possess such remarkable adaptability to changed conditions as do these plants. (E.J. Canning.)
  
P. spathacea, Mes (Pitcairnia spathacea, Griseb.). Lvs. up to 18 in. long and 1 in. broad, the spines incurved: panicle about 2 ft. long; sepals ovate, acuminate, pale rose; petals dull blue. Argentina. B.M. 7966.—P. violacea, Mes. Lvs. up to 20 in. long, linear, stiff, spiny in margin: panicle 15-20 in. long; sepals green, lanceolate, 1-1 1/4 in. long. acute; petals deep violet. Chile. B.M. 8194.
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P. spathacea, Mes (Pitcairnia spathacea, Griseb.). Lvs. up to 18 in. long and 1 in. broad, the spines incurved: panicle about 2 ft. long; sepals ovate, acuminate, pale rose; petals dull blue. Argentina. B.M. 7966.—P. violacea, Mes. Lvs. up to 20 in. long, linear, stiff, spiny in margin: panicle 15-20 in. long; sepals green, lanceolate, 1-1 1/4 in. long. acute; petals deep violet. Chile.
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'''''Puya''''' is a [[genus (biology)|genus]] of the [[botany|botanical]] [[family (biology)|family]] [[Bromeliaceae]], subfamily [[Pitcairnioideae]]. These [[terrestrial plant]]s are native to the [[Andes]] Mountains of [[South America]] and southern [[Central America]]. Many of the species are [[monocarpic]], with the parent plant dying after one flower and seed production event.
George V. Nash.
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The species ''[[Puya raimondii]]'' is notable as the largest species of bromeliad known, reaching 3 m tall in vegetative growth with a [[flower]] spike 9-10 m tall. The other species are also large, with the flower spikes mostly reaching 1-4 m tall.
  
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The name 'Puya' was derived from the [[Mapudungun|Mapuche Indian]] (Chile) word meaning "point".
  
 
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==Species==
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* ''[[Puya adscendens]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya aequatorialis]]'' André
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** var. ''albiflora'' André
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* ''[[Puya alata]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya alba]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya alpestris]]'' (Poeppig) Gay
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* ''[[Puya alpicola]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya angelensis]]'' E. Gross & Rauh
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* ''[[Puya angulonis]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya angusta]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya antioquiensis]]'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
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* ''[[Puya araneosa]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya argentea]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya aristeguietae]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya asplundii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya assurgens]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya atra]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya barkleyana]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya bermejana]]'' Gómez, Slanis & Grau
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* ''[[Puya berteroniana]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya bicolor]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya boliviensis]]'' Baker
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* ''[[Puya boopiensis]]'' R. Vásquez, Ibisch & R. Lara
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* ''[[Puya boyacana]]'' Cuatrecasas
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* ''[[Puya brachystachya]]'' (Baker) Mez
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* ''[[Puya brackeana]]'' Manzanares & W. Till
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* ''[[Puya brittoniana]]'' Baker
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* ''[[Puya cajasensis]]'' Manzanares & W. Till
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* ''[[Puya cardenasii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya cardonae]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya casmichensis]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya castellanosii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya cerrateana]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya chilensis]]'' Molina
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* ''[[Puya claudiae]]'' Ibisch, R. Vásquez & E. Gross
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* ''[[Puya clava-herculis]]'' Mez & Sodiro
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* ''[[Puya cleefii]]'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
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* ''[[Puya cochabambensis]]'' R. Vásquez & Ibisch
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* ''[[Puya coerulea]]'' Lindley
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** var. ''violacea'' (Brongniart) Smith
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** var. ''monteroana'' (Smith & Looser) Smith & Looser
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** var. ''intermedia'' (Smith & Looser) Smith & Looser
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* ''[[Puya commixta]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya compacta]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya coriacea]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya cristata]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya cryptantha]]'' Cuatrecasas
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* ''[[Puya ctenorhyncha]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya cuatrecasasii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya cuevae]]'' Manzanares & W. Till
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* ''[[Puya cylindrica]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya dasylirioides]]'' Standley
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* ''[[Puya densiflora]]'' Harms
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* ''[[Puya depauperata]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya dichroa]]'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
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* ''[[Puya dodsonii]]'' Manzanares & W. Till
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* ''[[Puya dolichostrobila]]'' Harms
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* ''[[Puya dyckioides]]'' (Baker) Mez
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* ''[[Puya elviragrossiae]]'' R. Vásquez & P.L. Ibisch
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* ''[[Puya entre-riosensis]]'' Ibisch & E. Gross
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* ''[[Puya erlenbachiana]]'' Ibisch & R. Vásquez
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* ''[[Puya eryngioides]]'' André
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* ''[[Puya exigua]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya exuta]]'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
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* ''[[Puya fastuosa]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya ferox]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya ferreyrae]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya ferruginea]]'' (Ruiz & Pavón) L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya fiebrigii]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya floccosa]]'' (Linden) E. Morren
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** var. ''compacta'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya fosteriana]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya fulgens]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya furfuracea]]'' (Willdenow) L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya gargantae]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya gerd-muelleri]]'' W. Weber
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* ''[[Puya gerdae]]'' W. Weber
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* ''[[Puya gigas]]'' André
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* ''[[Puya gilmartiniae]]'' G.S. Varadarajan & Flores
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* ''[[Puya glabrescens]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya glandulosa]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya glareosa]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya glaucovirens]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya glomerifera]]'' Mez & Sodiro
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* ''[[Puya goudotiana]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya gracilis]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya grafii]]'' Rauh
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* ''[[Puya grandidens]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya grantii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya grubbii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya gutteana]]'' W. Weber
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* ''[[Puya hamata]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya harmsii]]'' (Castellanos) Castellanos
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* ''[[Puya herrerae]]'' Harms
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* ''[[Puya herzogii]]'' Wittmack
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* ''[[Puya hirtzii]]'' Manzanares & W. Till
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* ''[[Puya hofstenii]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya horrida]]'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
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* ''[[Puya hortensis]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya huancavelicae]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya humilis]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya hutchisonii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya ibischii]]'' R. Vásquez
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* ''[[Puya iltisiana]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya isabellina]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya joergensenii]]'' H. Luther
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* ''[[Puya killipii]]'' Cuatrecasas
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* ''[[Puya kuntzeana]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya laccata]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya lanata]]'' Kunth
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* ''[[Puya lanuginosa]]'' (Ruiz & Pavón) Schultes f.
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* ''[[Puya larae]]'' R. Vásquez & Ibisch
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* ''[[Puya lasiopoda]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya laxa]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya lehmanniana]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya leptostachya]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya lilloi]]'' Castellanos
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* ''[[Puya lineata]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya llatensis]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya lokischmidtiae]]'' R. Vásquez & Ibisch
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* ''[[Puya longisepala]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya longispina]]'' Manzanares & W. Till
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* ''[[Puya longistyla]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya lopezii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya × loxensis]]'' Manzanares & W. Till
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* ''[[Puya lutheri]]'' W. Till
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* ''[[Puya macbridei]]'' L.B. Smith
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** ssp. ''yungayensis'' W. Weber
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* ''[[Puya macropoda]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya macrura]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya maculata]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya mariae]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya medica]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya membranacea]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya meziana]]'' Wittmack
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* ''[[Puya micrantha]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya mima]]'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
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* ''[[Puya minima]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya mirabilis]]'' (Mez) L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya mitis]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya mollis]]'' Baker
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* ''[[Puya mucronata]]'' Manzanares
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* ''[[Puya nana]]'' Wittmack
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* ''[[Puya navarroana]]'' Manzanares & W. Till
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* ''[[Puya nigrescens]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya nitida]]'' Mez
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** var. ''glabrior'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
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* ''[[Puya nivalis]]'' Baker
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* ''[[Puya nutans]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya obconica]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya occidentalis]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya ochroleuca]]'' Betancur & Callejas
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* ''[[Puya olivacea]]'' Wittmack
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* ''[[Puya oxyantha]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya pachyphylla]]'' R. Vásquez & Ibisch
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* ''[[Puya parviflora]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya pattersoniae]]'' Manzanares & W. Till
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* ''[[Puya paupera]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya pearcei]]'' (Baker) Mez
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* ''[[Puya penduliflora]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya × pichinchae]]'' Mez & Sodiro
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* ''[[Puya pitcairnioides]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya pizarroana]]'' R. Vásquez, Ibisch & St. Beck
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* ''[[Puya ponderosa]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya potosina]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya pratensis]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya prosanae]]'' Ibisch & E. Gross
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* ''[[Puya pseudoeryngioides]]'' H. Luther
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* ''[[Puya pygmaea]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya pyramidata]]'' (Ruiz & Pavón) Schultes f.
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* ''[[Puya quillotana]]'' W. Weber
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* ''[[Puya raimondii]]'' Harms
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* ''[[Puya ramonii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya ramosa]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya rauhii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya reducta]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya reflexiflora]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya retrorsa]]'' Gilmartin
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* ''[[Puya riparia]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya robin-fosteri]]'' H. Luther
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* ''[[Puya roezlii]]'' E. Morren
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* ''[[Puya roldanii]]'' Betancur & Callejas
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* ''[[Puya roseana]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya rusbyi]]'' (Baker) Mez
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* ''[[Puya sagasteguii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya sanctae-crucis]]'' (Baker) L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya sanctae-martae]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya santanderensis]]'' Cuatrecasas
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* ''[[Puya santosii]]'' Cuatrecasas
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** var. ''verdensis'' Cuatrecasas
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* ''[[Puya secunda]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya sehuencasensis]]'' R. Vásquez, Ibisch & R. Lara
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* ''[[Puya silvae-baccae]]'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
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* ''[[Puya simulans]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya smithii]]'' Castellanos
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* ''[[Puya sodiroana]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya solomonii]]'' G.S. Varadarajan
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* ''[[Puya spathacea]]'' (Grisebach) Mez
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* ''[[Puya stenothyrsa]]'' (Baker) Mez
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* ''[[Puya stipitata]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya strobilantha]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya textoragricolae]]'' W. Weber
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* ''[[Puya thomasiana]]'' André
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* ''[[Puya tillii]]'' Manzanares
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* ''[[Puya tovariana]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya trianae]]'' Baker
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** var. ''amplior'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
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* ''[[Puya tristis]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya trollii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya tuberosa]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya tunarensis]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya ugentiana]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya ultima]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya valida]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya vargasiana]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya vasquezii]]'' Ibisch & E. Gross
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* ''[[Puya venezuelana]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya venusta]]'' Philippi
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* ''[[Puya vestita]]'' André
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* ''[[Puya volcanensis]]'' Castillon
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* ''[[Puya weberbaueri]]'' Mez
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* ''[[Puya weberiana]]'' E. Morren ex Mez
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* ''[[Puya weddelliana]]'' (Baker) Mez
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* ''[[Puya werneriana]]'' R.W. Read & L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya westii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya wrightii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya wurdackii]]'' L.B. Smith
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* ''[[Puya yakespala]]'' Castellanos
  
 
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File:Puya berteroana.jpg|Puya berteroana
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File:Puya chilensis 6.jpg|Puya chilensis
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File:Puya clava-herculis 4.jpg|Puya clava-herculis
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File:Puya coerulea 1.jpg|Puya coerulea
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File:Puya dyckioides 1.jpg|Puya dyckioides
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File:Puya hofstenii HabitusInflorescence BotGardBln0906a.jpg|Puya hofstenii
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File:Puya laxa 3.jpg|Puya laxa
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File:Puya laxa 1.jpg|Puya laxa
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File:Puya raimondii.jpg|
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File:Puya raimondii 4.jpg|Puya raimondii
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File:Puya raimondii 5.jpg|Puya raimondii
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File:Puya lineata (3).jpg|
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File:Puya lineata (2).jpg|
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File:Puya lineata (1).jpg|
 
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Latest revision as of 05:25, 10 December 2009


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Plant Characteristics
Habit   bromeliad

Lifespan: perennial
Cultivation
Features: evergreen, flowers
Scientific Names

Bromeliaceae >

Puya >



Read about Puya in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Puya (Chilean name). Bromeliaceae. Large terrestrial xerophytic South American bromeliads.

Allied to Pitcairnia (differing in having a fully superior rather than partially superior ovary).—Forty-four species, according to Mez (DC. Monogr. Phaner. 9). For culture, see also Billbergia. Puya also includes the plants known in trade as Pourretia.

Puyas and pitcairnias are generally found in collections of bromeliads and are usually grown in moist tropical houses. The native home of the puyas is on the steep stony slopes of the Cordilleras at high altitudes with little other vegetation for company except some species of cereus. This would indicate that drier and cooler conditions, or such as are given cacti and succulents, would suit them best, yet they thrive equally well in the tropical house. Indeed, the writer has found most of the family Bromeliaceae very accommodating not only to temperature and moisture conditions, but to soils and methods of growing them; for example many of the tillandsias may be grown on blocks of wood as epiphytes, yet they do equally well grown in pots. But what perhaps is more remarkable is the fact that several of the stronger-growing bromeliads appear to grow equally well either in a strong loamy mixture, or a mixture of chopped fern root and charcoal. The writer has pineapples growing in both mixtures with equal success. But the most rational treatment is to give all the bromeliads conditions and soil similar to the environment in which they are found in their native habitat, yet according to the experience of the writer few plants possess such remarkable adaptability to changed conditions as do these plants. (E.J. Canning.)

P. spathacea, Mes (Pitcairnia spathacea, Griseb.). Lvs. up to 18 in. long and 1 in. broad, the spines incurved: panicle about 2 ft. long; sepals ovate, acuminate, pale rose; petals dull blue. Argentina. B.M. 7966.—P. violacea, Mes. Lvs. up to 20 in. long, linear, stiff, spiny in margin: panicle 15-20 in. long; sepals green, lanceolate, 1-1 1/4 in. long. acute; petals deep violet. Chile.


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Puya is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae. These terrestrial plants are native to the Andes Mountains of South America and southern Central America. Many of the species are monocarpic, with the parent plant dying after one flower and seed production event.

The species Puya raimondii is notable as the largest species of bromeliad known, reaching 3 m tall in vegetative growth with a flower spike 9-10 m tall. The other species are also large, with the flower spikes mostly reaching 1-4 m tall.

The name 'Puya' was derived from the Mapuche Indian (Chile) word meaning "point".

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