Travel highlights 2010 to 2020

In this post I will look back at some of my plant travel highlights from the past decade. Whilst we can’t go where we want to, whilst this awful pandemic continues, we can dream of future travels during lockdown. I have been very lucky to have travelled to some amazing places from 2010 to 2020,…

A Giant Amongst Pineapples, Puya raimondii

Puya raimondii known rather charmingly as ‘Queen of the Andes’1 is the largest member of the Pineapple family (Bromeliaceae)2. As you can see in the picture, it´s certainly enormous compared with me. The flower spike or the inflorescense is one of the largest in the world, containing hundreds of flowers! Unfortunately this spectacular bromeliad, which is…