Blue beacons from another world 💙🌿 At the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah, the otherworldly Puya plants have sent up towering flower spikes up to 4 metres high - bristling with turquoise blossoms tipped with bright orange anthers. Native to the high-altitude slopes of the Andes, species such as Puya alpestris ssp. zeollneri belong to the bromeliad family - the same family as the pineapple. Their rosettes of spiny, silver-grey leaves help them capture and conserve water in extreme con
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Blue beacons from another world 💙🌿 At the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah, the otherworldly Puya plants have sent up towering flower spikes up to 4 metres high - bristling with turquoise blossoms tipped with bright orange anthers. Native to the high-altitude slopes of the Andes, species such as Puya alpestris ssp. zeollneri belong to the bromeliad family - the same family as the pineapple. Their rosettes of spiny, silver-grey leaves help them capture and conserve water in extreme con
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