The sapphire tower plant, with its metallic-turquoise blooms and bright orange anthers, is now in bloom at the San Diego Botanic Garden. The unearthly plant, whose scientific name is puya ...

Some, like the upcoming American cicadapocaplypse might not be so popular – whereas, across the pond in Birmingham, UK, botanists are thrilled to reveal the blooming of their sapphire tower.

At the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas, the unusual Puya alpestris — aka Sapphire Tower — is in bloom. Get neighborhood ... more than 4,000 species of plants in 29 themed gardens over ...

Another striking beauty from the bromeliad plant family, the Puya alpestris or sapphire tower bromeliad features ... of pointed spear-shaped leaves. In bloom, aechmea bromeliads have a bulbous ...

Richard Baines, curator of Logan Botanic Garden, said: “It’s not every day you get to see an extraordinary plant such as ‘sapphire tower’ bloom outside of its regular climate, so having it ...

It has an "alien-like appearance and spectacularly coloured hues", which has seen it nicknamed the Sapphire Tower. The rare plant takes up to a decade to bloom with the flowers dying soon after ...

The plant, which is also known as the sapphire tower due to its spectacularly coloured flowering spikes, is native to the mountainous regions of central and southern Chile, at elevations of up to ...