Puya dyckioides Chelone each heavily spotted with creamy

each heavily spotted with creamy yellow among the longitudinal creamy white and yellow stripes

but there are a few populations where the foliage tends toward blue

the clumps are topped with white flowers with red stripes on terminal spikes

This native plant of the Southeast US can be found growing in coastal swamps from South Carolina west to Texas

Puya dyckioides Chelone each heavily spotted with creamyWe first became familiar with the hardy bromeliad Puya dyckioides on our 2002 Argentina trip, where plantsman Sean Hogan spotted it growing on a cliff around 10,000' elevation. We subsequently (2005) planted offspring in our garden which have grown vigorously ever since, experiencing temperatures of 7 degrees F with some leaf burn, but flowering was unaffected. The olive green spiny leaves form a fast offsetting 2' tall x 4' wide patch in 5 years.