Sapphire Tower - Puya alpestris

Latin Name:

Puya alpestris

Regular price $14.99 CAD
SKU: 38917
We only sell freshly harvested seeds from small time growers, hobbyists and collectors.Listing is for 5 Seeds These plants are related to both Pineapples and the tropical Bromeliads that grow in trees in Central America. They’re terrestrial (they live in the ground not halfway up a tree) but demonstrate their common ancestry with the tree dwellers by living in a pot quite happily for very much longer than most plants. Because they’re not terribly hardy, this is convenient. They can be dragged in their pots into a shed for the winter.The flowers are extraordinary. Metallic blue and copious on great...

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Meet Puya alpestris. The common name for this is Sapphire Tower. Stargazer Exotics is proud to offer the freshest of rare plant seeds. Other Common names for this rare Bromeliad are: Blue cactus, Pincushion cactus. Check this Sapphire Tower (Puya alpestris) out along with all of our other Bromeliads plant seeds here at Stargazer Exotics. We ship these Bromeliads seeds from Canada to anywhere in the World.
$14.99 CAD
We only sell freshly harvested seeds from small time growers, hobbyists and collectors.
Listing is for 5 Seeds

These plants are related to both Pineapples and the tropical Bromeliads that grow in trees in Central America. They’re terrestrial (they live in the ground not halfway up a tree) but demonstrate their common ancestry with the tree dwellers by living in a pot quite happily for very much longer than most plants. Because they’re not terribly hardy, this is convenient. They can be dragged in their pots into a shed for the winter.

The flowers are extraordinary. Metallic blue and copious on great spikes that emerge from time to time – up to 5ft tall.

The plant itself raises spikiness to a whole different level. It’s not just the usual spikes at the end of the leaves but barbed spikes on the edges of the leaves too.

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