And for most people, the chance to see this rare endangered plant bloom will only come once in a lifetime. In the wild, the Puya raimondii, also known as the Queen of the Andes, only blooms when ...

A rare South American Puya raimondii plant, known for taking up to 100 years to bloom, has started to pop in Berkeley after just 24, which may be a world record. Planted as a seed in 1990 at the ...

Found in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia, the world’s biggest bromeliad Puya raimondii is imperiled by climate change and human disturbances. “This is a special plant, the largest of the ...

The plant, a Puya raimondii also known as the Queen of the Andes, is blooming at the University of California Botanical Garden in Berkeley, California. The rare bloom usually happens only once every ...

Both are wrong: it’s an absolutely massive, rare-blooming, and long-lived plant called Puya raimondii. The so-called “Queen of the Andes” belongs to the bromeliads, a family of plants that ...

(Photo: Xinhua) This file photo taken on Nov. 9, 2018 shows Puya raimondii, known as the Queen of the Andes, in Peru. The plant is native to Peru and is regarded as a treasure. (Photo: Xinhua ...

The plant, which goes by the scientific name Puya raimondii, is on display at the university's botanical gardens near the garden of old roses. The U.C. Berkeley Botanical Garden is open to ...

It is known that in the world we have 3 thousand species of this type of flowering plant, however, the Puya de Raimondi stands out for being the largest and the most numerous in thousands of ...

There's a very special plant that's flowering at the UC Botanical Garden right now, and you might only get to see it once during your lifetime. The Puya raimondii, also known as the Queen of the ...