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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. Identified subject: Puya cajasensis.

Album Shrubs, trees and rosettes, Plants, flowers and growing forms

Trail Running Ecuador · Uso editorial con crédito

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Spiky Puya rosettes stand among tussock grasses across the rolling páramo slopes at Llulluchas, below exposed rocky hills.
Puya rosettes across páramo slopes
Orange flowers across the páramo
Orange flowers across the páramo
A purple flower above low plants
A purple flower above low plants
Bright yellow Gentianella hirculus flowers form rounded globes of overlapping red-edged lobes close to the páramo ground.
Gentianella hirculus globito flowers
Five purple petals among grasses
Five purple petals among grasses
Tiny pale flowers on slender stems
Tiny pale flowers on slender stems