The Puya raimondii, also known as the Queen of the Andes, is in the process of producing a bloom that could sprout 30 feet high and feature up to 30,000 flowers, and we UC Berkeley students can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lan Nguyan and Jeff Wu of Berkeley take a photo of themselves in front of the Puya raimondii plant, also know as the Queen of the Andes, that is starting bloom after 24 years of living at the UC ...

U.C. Berkeley will likely be bustling with botanists in the coming days as flower watchers await an extremely rare bloom of up to 30,000 flowers from a plant known as the Queen of the Andes.

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The Berkeley plant is about 24 years old and is in the process of creating a bloom that could grow up to 30 feet high. In full bloom, it would be adorned with as many as 30,000 flowers.

The Puya genus includes about 230 species, the largest of which is Puya raimondii, which can reach 10 feet tall in vegetative growth with a flower spike 33 feet tall. Other Puyas range around more ...

Wrapping one’s head around Puya raimondii’s biological time-table is hard. There is an involuted ingenuity to it. A bromelaid native to sections of Andes in South America, it takes an ...

It produces enormous white flowers which are highly scented. It is believed to be extinct in the wild but is represented in several living collections around the world, including Kew Gardens.