A mystery agave plant has suddenly flowered for the first time since gardeners started tending it some 57 years ago. The random sprouting has stunned staff at the Arid Lands House of Cambridge ...

A succulent related to the plant used to make tequila that has been growing for 57 years is about to flower for the first time. After more than a half-century, an agave plant in the Arid House ...

Our trainees are measuring our #Agave flower spike on a daily basis. Y'day it grew 12.4cm in 24hrs ! Will it be going thru the roof of our Arid House?! # ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A towering American agave plant that waited 80 years to flower and produce seeds is dying after fulfilling its purpose and will be taken down next month, said its caretaker at the ...

American agave plants are known for their fairly fatalistic life cycles: live, die, repeat. After blooming, the plants are expected to die shortly thereafter, usually leaving behind clones of ...

Colorado is experiencing an extraordinary bloom this season — and it’s not just wildflowers. Two agave plants are fully flowering at the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus greenhouse, and the ...

Question: Is the life of an agave lengthened if its flower stalk is cut off early? I noticed that the blue tequila agave farmers in Mexico keep them trimmed off. — Tom Gearhart, Valley Village Answer: ...

The enduring desert agave is a long-living plant with a quick end. It will thrive for 20 to 40 years, and then die after mustering up its one and only bloom of flowers. This Southern California native ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A towering American agave plant that waited 80 years to flower and produce seeds is dying after fulfilling its purpose and will be taken down next month, said its caretaker at the ...

If you want a garden that you will never, ever need to water, consider agaves. There are more than a hundred agave species and varieties available to gardeners in Southern California, so you will have ...

The percentage of rosettes of the monocarpic perennial Agave deserti that flowered annually in the northwestern Sonoran Desert varied ca. 50-fold for the 8 yr considered. The number of days when the ...