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Developing Puya flower spike in páramo grass

A developing Puya flower spike is enclosed by dense reddish-brown bracts above long spiny leaves, among pale highland tussock grasses.

A developing Puya flower spike is enclosed by dense reddish-brown bracts above long spiny leaves, among pale highland tussock grasses.

Album Shrubs, trees and rosettes

Trail Running Ecuador · Uso editorial con crédito

From the same album

Spiky Puya rosettes stand among tussock grasses across the rolling páramo slopes at Llulluchas, below exposed rocky hills.
Puya rosettes across páramo slopes
Dense yellow Gynoxys flower clusters cover grey-green shrubs in the páramo at Baute, beside a lake and below grassy slopes with a hiker and mist-covered rocky peaks.
Flowering Gynoxys shrubs below misty peaks
Short clusters of pink and white, urn-shaped Vaccinium floribundum flowers hang from a slender branch among small glossy leaves.
Pink-white Vaccinium floribundum flowers
Pink Bejaria flowers rise above dense small leaves on a mountain slope. Their long pale-tipped stamens project beyond the petals.
Bejaria flowering on a mountain slope
Hanging red Macleania flowers with short pale tips cluster among glossy green leaves, showing the compact urn-shaped corollas.
Macleania flowers with pale tips
A large Oreocallis grandiflora flower cluster forms a pink-and-cream brush of long styles and curled perianth segments above leathery leaves.
Pink Oreocallis grandiflora flowering brush