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
Here the link to the photographer who has a really great port folio.
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
because I prefer to die for to get one of that kind of spikey!
I would like to meet new friends in other part of the world and would be glad to trade plants or seed from this part of the world.
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.