Pitcairnia altensteinii (Altenstein's puya, gigantic variety, Puya altensteinii), native to Venezuela. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," London, 1847.

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