It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first—and only—time in its life. “Meet Agave ...

From Clovis to Hanford in Central California, the mature succulents known as agave americana are dying. And there is little anyone can do. But this isn’t a case of errant pesticides, disease or insect ...

After nearly 30 years of waiting, two agave plants on the CU Boulder campus are having their moment in the sun. Rare Agave Bloom https://youtu.be/B7lZ9xU_9mo 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 ...

After decades of care, the agave plant at the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum is getting ready to bloom. Its stalk is so tall that it outgrew its greenhouse.

An 80-year-old American agave plant that will flower once then die is about to do the former. Probably. Housed at the University of the Michigan since 1934, the plant has grown so rapidly since the ...

In this June 18, 2014 photo provided by the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, flower buds are ready to bloom on an American agave plant at the University of Michigan's Matthaei ...

June is the month when agave and yucca plants flower and the phone and e-mail messages pile up as these succulents bloom across the county. There is much confusion about agave and yucca – which is ...

DETROIT (AP) — A flowering process 80 years in the making is finally underway. An American agave plant housed at the University of Michigan since 1934 started to bloom Tuesday afternoon. The blooms so ...

An 80-year-old American Agave that is currently growing at a rate of 5-6 inches a day inside the Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory in Ann Arbor. The Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory ...

ANN ARBOR, MIch. -- It's still growing, and growing, and growing. Like the beanstalk from the famous fable, the stalk of an 80-year-old American agave plant at the University of Michigan is so tall, ...