Puya gigas

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Puya gigas in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Puya gigas, Andre. Still larger than the latter, sending its titanic spikes 20-30 ft. into the air, from a rosette of hard and thick spiny-toothed agave-like lvs.: infl. simple, dense, club-shaped, terminating the tall, erect, bracted scape: lvs. green above and white beneath, the spines black and hooked: fls. white, passing into rose. Colombia, 10,000 ft. R.H. 1881,p. 315, and Gn.21, p. 309.—Can probably be handled like agaves. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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