Just behind the Amazon Waterlily Pavilion, visible above, was the unusual plant I could never identify at Seaside Gardens in Carpinteria, CA. It turns out to be Puya chilensis, a bromeliad from Chile. This spiny creature is said to be capable of entangling and killing sheep and birds. In the background below is the Araucaria Avenue.
Why would it want to do that?
ReplyDeleteJust like the bird-catcher tree, it wants to enrich its soil.
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