One great floweringSourced
A towering Andean plant flowers once, then dies
Puya raimondii sends up a large flowering stalk in the Andes. It reproduces once and dies soon afterward. That strategy is familiar in small annual plants but less common in long-lived ones. Its enormous scale does not imply repeated seasons of flowering.
A long life can lead toward a single reproductive event.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-05