A century plant (Agave americana) was blooming. I hollered for the kids to look, but they were too deep into there phones to see it before we passed. I think one of them might have uttered “nerd ...

Lucinda Windham of Bay County said she has never seen it bloom in the 60 years the plant has been growing. The century plant, ...

An agave “century plant” said to bloom only once every 100 years has begun to open its bushy yellow blossoms in Hibiya Park in Tokyo. Locals and foreign tourists alike crowded into the park on ...

An agave plant at the Duke biology greenhouse blooms after 10 quiet years; its next step: death. An agave plant at the Duke Bioscience Research Greenhouse has finally bloomed after 10 years. Last ...

Agave guiengola in Flower Dome, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore Curiously, some agaves have been coined the common name of ‘Century Plant’, Agave guiengola in the Flower Dome being one of them.

A giant plant dubbed an "asparagus on steroids" has flowered for the first - and only - time after keeping gardeners waiting for more than half a century. The agave flower spike appeared in June ...

The Agave Americana, or maguey of the Mexicans, is known as the century plant among our collections ... Specimens of it are now covered with spikes of flower buds, which will open at the first ...

Israel's Blue Agave Israel Group, the brainchild of Avi Leitner and Avi Rosenfeld, aims to have the first bottles of ...

The sap of agave plants, which is toxic to people if it's not cooked, is harvested from the heart of the plant. It's then extracted, filtered, and heated to create the product sold in stores.

Alice the Agave americana plant commands attention as she readies herself for her grand finale. Standing proudly at an impressive height of 25 feet, Alice surprisingly took little to no ...

Many have sought out more resilient plants that don’t need a lot of water — like agave. And as more growers cultivate the plant here, distillers interested in making their own California agave ...