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 ...

That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first ... “Now, in its grand finale, it’s sending up a colossal flowering stalk. This spectacular bloom is the plant’s one ...

They’re making good work of it, too. 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 ...

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.

17-foot-tall flower stalk. The plant sure had never bloomed like that before. What in the world could it be? It's known as a spineless century plant, also called Agave attenuate, according to ...

“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 ...