Its a once in a generation sight in Morehead City.,A huge agave plant well known to the locals is blooming a rare sight ...

or Agave americana. "We have a huge climatic variability and soil variability," Guzmán-Delgado says. "Even if we get information from Mexico, we have to adapt to the conditions of California." ...

We stood next to the driveway studying a rather stunted Agave americana. Farmers would call this plant a "poor doer" because it's never become established in that two-year old landscape.

Miguel Cuevas, an avid gardener, rushed online to research the mysterious phenomenon and discovered he was witnessing a rare blooming of Agave Americana, commonly known as the century plant ...

The agave americana plant is known as a century plant because it typically blooms once every 100 years at the end of its life cycle. The plant is native to northern Mexico and was brought to ...

Longwood Gardens has waited nearly two decades for a roof-popping bloom of Agave americana, known as the Century Plant. This perennial succulent is monocarpic, meaning it only blooms once before ...

Question: Dear Mr. Smarty Plants- We have a ~5-year-old agave americana that began to have leaves turn yellow (to black in some areas) just this past spring (2008). A neighbor's tree had started ...

Agave, made from cooking the sap of a succulent, tastes sweeter than sugar and may be a good sweetener for vegans. Agave is a genus that is part of the Asparagaceae family. The succulent is native ...

americana 'Marginata' offers a fountain-shaped ... This frost-tender, 5-foot-tall foxtail agave is also the only species to form a trunk. Agave vilmoriniana, known as octopus agave because its ...