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 ...

For a short window of time, visitors to Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium will be in the presence of an unusual sight. The zoo’s botanical garden has been the home and caretaker to an Agave parryi var.

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. “Meet Agave ...

SEQUIM — Isobel Johnston’s agave plant is about to go to new heights, blooming into a towering sight to see along Fifth Avenue in Sequim. A new stalk emerged recently from the nearly 30-year-old plant ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A 60-year-old agave plant is finally blooming at the Garfield Park Conservatory. What makes this so special is it only happens once, and then it dies. Measuring more than 38 feet tall, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Dallas Arboretum is full of life right now; bright blossoms, busy honeybees and one plant that stands out above the rest. It’s a crazy cycle of life, and death, for the Queen Victoria Agave. Most ...

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In Aztec culture, the goddess Mayahuel represented fertility and the agave plant, making her a fitting namesake for the majestic, decades-old agave Americana that grows in the center of the desert ...

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 ...