Global Museum on Nostr: This is one of the strangest and rarest plants on the planet, the puya Raimondi. It ...

This is one of the strangest and rarest plants on the planet, the puya Raimondi. It grows over 3800 metres above sea level and reaches 12 meters. It takes 100 years to reach maturity, blooms once in a lifetime, for a whole year, there is no other plant that blooms so long, then spreads its seeds and dies by self-combustion.
These examples found in Peru and Bolivia. #plants