The plants, which adorn an outdoor garden near the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology greenhouse on 30th Street, have started to bloom—something these succulents do only once in their ...

The Agave ovatifolia succulent has been in the garden for around 10 years and it’s finally in bloom. These plants are monocarpic, meaning they flower and produce seeds only once and then die.

In mid-May, the agave plants began shooting out long, skinny stalks where flowers began to poke out. By mid-July, one stalk was more than 14 feet tall. “When I get a ladder up there to look at them, ...

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 ...

According to homeowner Dale Bounds, it’s an agave, a plant not native to East Texas. Bounds has collected and raised plants for most of his life. As he tells it, about three decades ago, his friend, ...

Kalmar said the agave will likely bloom through the summer and survive into the fall. However, once an agave blooms, it will die. Johnston’s plant’s bloom will be quite the spectacle though. “The ...

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 ...

Agave nectar, made from the blue agave plant, is about 30% sweeter than sugar. It has more nutrients, including vitamin B6, but is a processed food and should be used in moderation.

Mezcal can be made from any agave variety in Mexico while tequila, Runnebaum said, comes solely from the blue agave plant grown within the geographically defined region of “Tequila.” In California, ...

After trying out a test plot a few years ago, Woolf went on to plant some 200,000 agave on land he otherwise would have fallowed. Each acre of agave is taking only 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) of ...