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 ...

A pair of agave attenuate 'Nova' in the Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden recently bloomed. This is the first time the two large rosette succulents are flowering in nearly a decade.

ANN ARBOR, MIch. -- 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 ...

Lisa Negri celebrated the SummerHome Garden's agave plant that typically blooms once every 20 years.

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.

That somewhat dubious honor belongs to a species called blue agave (Agave azul). Instead, this bloom is a testament to the power of patience. A former professor emeritus of linguistics named Allan ...

An 80-year-old American agave plant that will flower once then die seems poised to do just that. Housed at the University of the Michigan since 1934, the plant has grown so rapidly since the ...

The plants, which adorn an outdoor garden near the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology greenhouse on 30th Street, have started to bloom—something these succulents do only once in their ...

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 ...

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 ...