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 ...

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 ...

This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com. 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 ...

ST. LOUIS — A critically endangered plant is in bloom at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and it could play an important role in the survival of its species. MoBOT posted photos to Twitter Tuesday of an ...

BOULDER, Colorado — Two "century plants" are putting on a show on the CU Boulder campus with once-in-a-lifetime blooms atop towering stalks, the University of Colorado Boulder said on Thursday. The ...

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 ...

Standing an impressive 12 feet tall with vibrant yellow flowers at its tip, the agave plant is in bloom at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. The plant, whose Latin name is Agave parryi, has been at the ...

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Tulsa Botanic Garden's Agave parryi has reached max height at 11 feet. And the best news is that all 11 feet survived the devastating storm that tore through the Tulsa area last weekend. Agave parryi ...

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 ...

After providing remarkably striking foliage for many years, the biggest and boldest agaves bolt with spectacularly tall floral stalks that support horizontal pads of flowers. These stalks can bloom ...