Xeric bromeliads from the UC Berkeley botanical gardens

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Xeric bromeliads from the UC Berkeley botanical gardens

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pretty sure the Puya venusta is incorrectly identified, but the rest seem OK
Aechmea recruvata var. ortgiesii.jpg
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Aechmea recurvata var. ortgiesii flowering UCB.jpg
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Deutercohnia brevifolia nice round ball UCB.jpg
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Deuterocohnia brevifolia clump nice UCB.jpg
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Deutercohnia schreiteri UCB.jpg
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Fascicularia pitcairniifolia UCB.jpg
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Fascicularia sp UCB.jpg
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Fascicularia sp. side shot UCB.jpg
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Hechtia montana nice UCB.jpg
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hechtia texensis nice UCB.jpg
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Hechtia texensis rosette colorful UCB.jpg
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Dyckia ferox UCB.jpg
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Dyckia velascana UCB.jpg
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Ochagavia carnea UCB.jpg
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Pitcairnia sp 1 UCB.jpg
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Pitcairnia flower UCB.jpg
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Puya alpestris per UCB (yikes!).jpg
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Puya black flowers unknown UCB.jpg
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Puya venusta per UCB.jpg
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Puya have some weird colored flowers. Aren't they the ones that can be bright blue and green? I think xeric bromeliads are very cool though often they look pretty scruffy.
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Is that silvery clump labeled? When I was a volunteer there over a decade ago,they had told me that those Puya's had no real I.D. So,I wonder if Puya venusta is a best guess on the gardens part?
If anybody see's one for sale- snatch it up. They glow silver on a sunny day. I would say a near icon of the BBG among a few others of course.
I checked Dave's Garden,this is Puya alpestris.
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Puya venusta is a new offering on Arid Lands this month. While not the plant above, it's still beautiful.
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Even Annies Annual's has a photo of that same Puya at UCB by the bench as.... P. venusta. I give up.
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Gotta love terrestrial bromeliads!
The picture labelled Puya alpestris isn't that. No idea what it is, but it isn't alpestris!
The picture labelled Fascicularia species is a Greigia species, those flower clusters in the leaf axils are a give away, probably G. sphacelata.
And Fascicularia pitcairnifolia is now Fascicularia bicolor ssp bicolor - at least, last time I looked!
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Seems the Puya genus is not a very known group of plants as the massive collection by the Huntington is largely unidentified. Have so GREAT stuff, but what it all actually is is not clear. Pretty sure the 'Puya alpestris' (as it's labeled at UC Berkeley) is actually Puya coerulea var violacea (at least two other gardens have that plant under that name... just going by the majority rule).

Here's a few more shots of that plant at the Huntington
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Puya coerulea var. violacea violet dark flweors May.jpg
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Puya coerulea var. violacea pink peduncles H 5-16 end.jpg
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The same plant a little farther away view.
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