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Have you ever seen something like this ?

Verfasst: Montag, 23 April 2007, 13:11
von chanin
I just came across with this pic while I was searching on Bromelia pic.
It was taken somewhere in Brazil, I wonder if it's a bromeliad or not ?
I've never seen that type of spine before :?

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Here the link to the photographer who has a really great port folio.

http://www1.flickr.com/photos/jomiyagui/317539521/

Verfasst: Montag, 23 April 2007, 20:05
von Joachim
hello chanin,
this spec. can not be a bromelia because there are 2 Spikes on same place on the leave.
it must be a cactus or a agavaceae :) :) :)

Verfasst: Montag, 23 April 2007, 21:50
von Timm Stolten
Hi Chanin,

I agree in Joachims doubts,
maybe it is some sort of Yucca or Dasylirion ?

Greetings Timm

Verfasst: Dienstag, 24 April 2007, 9:38
von chanin
Thanks Joachim & Timm :lol:

I just got the answer from two expert an hour ago : Walter Till and Dutch Vandervort
that this mysterious plant should be a species of Eryngium (Umbelliferae = Apiaceae), a dicot plant.

Ohhh...thank you god, for not a brom :roll:
because I prefer to die for to get one of that kind of spikey!

Verfasst: Dienstag, 24 April 2007, 15:54
von JoachimInB
Funny, when I was in Chile for the first time I got fooled as well. That time by Eryngium agavifolium, which is very common and sometimes really bromeliad-like. Nice plants, but very unfriendly spines.

Cheers,
Joachim