The Botanical Garden is calling this phenomenon a Death Bloom. People who visited the garden within the last decade may ...

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 ...

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 ...

Survival secrets from a desert icon, revealing nature’s strategies for enduring and thriving in the harshest environments.

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 ...

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 ...

A plant which suddenly started growing at an incredible rate 42 years ago has now burst into bloom. Phillip Roberts, 84 and his wife Grace Roberts, 84, bought an agave regina plant from a garden ...

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.

the bats could subsist on night-blooming flowering cactus plants and sometimes cactus fruit and pollen. “The bats don’t need agave, but agaves need bats,” Domínguez Laso, of Real Minero ...

Today, beyond the icy grip of winter, 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 ...

Tequila is arguably one of Mexico's greatest national treasures. Made from the heart of the Weber azul agave plant, this spirit has been mass-produced since the 1600s and is one of the first ...