According to the zoo, the agave's main rosette will die and leave behind "pups," or clone offshoots at its base, which could ...

An Agave ovatifolia succulent that spent ten years at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden is undergoing a death bloom. Teodora Mitov reports.

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 ...

The bloom also brings a little bit of sadness. Once the agave finish flowering, the plants will begin to shrivel and die—this colorful event marks the end of their decades-spanning lives. But Clark ...

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.

Palmer says although the plant will die after it flowers, it will leave behind many pups — genetic clones that look like mini versions of the mother agave — and potentially thousands of seeds.

An 80-year-old American agave plant that will flower once then die seems poised to do just that.

The agave plant at the corner of South 18th and Shackleford Street has reached its peak and is now starting to wither.New ...

But the massive plant is about to bloom, bringing its time on campus to an end. WMU’s Finch Greenhouse is home to plenty of plants, including ‘Alice,’ a 50-year-old and counting agave plant.

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

Tenby's Giltar Hotel is about to witness the blooming of its agave plant, a rare event known as the 'death flower', ...