A 16-year mission undertaken by one Berthoud agave plant will soon come to an end, as the high-desert succulent blooms extravagantly before withering and dying. Parry’s agave is also known as ...

It's the beginning of the end for a well-known succulent at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden, but before the plant dies it is going to go out with a bloom instead of a bang. The agave ...

Mink and Tim Sumner-Wilson bought the Agave cactus plant in 1968 It shot up to 16ft in three weeks after suddenly growing two inches per day Dubbed the 'Green Giant', it even smashed the ...

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 giant plant dubbed an "asparagus ... and refusing to bloom until Monday night. Assistant curator Dr Ángela Cano has identified it as Agave vivipara, though this will not be properly confirmed ...

The 4.5m (14.5ft) plant was cut down last week, after blooming last year. Staff collected seedlings, saying they wanted to "share the agave love". The agave vivipara flower "spike" appeared in ...