Agave with branched raceme, called a panicle. The Variegated Caribbean Agave (A. angustifolia var. marginata) is an example ...

The photos in today’s column ... solitary-nearly-agave-species/. When an Agave plant becomes sufficiently mature, its rosette generates a flowering stalk from the center of the plant.

In one final effort to reproduce, the agave musters all its remaining energy and pushes out a towering asparagus-like stalk with flower buds. It can take 10 to 25 years for a plant to produce a ...

White-striped century plant (agave americana var. medio-picta 'Alba'). This plant grows to 3-4 feet high and 4-6 feet wide, ...

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, it's through the ...

The stalk of an Agave parryi var. truncata, more commonly known as the Artichoke Agave, grows high above the other plants in the desert plant collection at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium on ...

“Cuishe agave in most regions is a karwinskii varietal, and [it] has a stalk like a small palm tree, with the pencas or spines clustered at the top and a trunk of exposed piña and wood,” says ...

An Agave plant at Western Michigan University's ... but rather an estimated 55 years of preparation by the plant.The plant's flower stalk has now outgrown the building's glass roof.

Point Defiance Zoo's agave blooms once after nearly 20 years of growth Plant's nine-foot stalk will flower briefly, then die, completing its cycle Botanical staff anticipate future blooms from ...