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 ...

A Palmdale man was shocked and confused when he noticed a large, mysterious stalk suddenly growing from a plant after more than 30 years in his yard. Miguel Cuevas, an avid gardener, rushed online to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An agave Americana succulent plant that only blooms once every half-century is about to bloom in Monterey.The cactus-like agave, also known as a "century plant," is growing in the Del Monte Shopping ...

For the last decade and a half, Steve Cook’s agave plants had mostly done nothing more than quietly survive in a climate far colder and rainier than their native desert. That changed in April. That's ...

Known as the century plant because it blooms infrequently, it is native to Mexico and the American Southwest and typically lives 10 to 25 years in the wild before blooming a single time then dying.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — 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 ...

Carleton University's Queen Victoria agave is going out in a blaze of glory, more than 30 years after arriving at the school's greenhouse. The desert-dwelling plant, which has a slender flower stalk ...

With flowers so high in the sky that they could compete with Jack’s bean stalk, some tropical agaves are unusually striking when they are in bloom. Almost shockingly so. The spikes are so tall that ...

A 16-year mission undertaken by one Berthoud agave plant will soon come to an end, as the high-desert succulent blooms extravagantly before withering and dying. Parry’s agave is also known as the ...