death. An agave plant at the Duke Bioscience Research Greenhouse has finally bloomed after 10 years. Last month the agave plant stalk first started growing, and it now stands at roughly 20 feet tall, ...

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

A copperplate engraving of an agave quiote, or flowering stalk, by German botanist ... “They called it tristeza y muerte—sadness and death—because the plants begin to look sad and wilt ...

Blue agave, Agave tequilana, is a plant widely used to produce tequila. It’s native to Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, and Aguascalientes in Mexico, but has been imported into many of the southern parts of ...

Botanists realized again last week that “century plant” is a complete misnomer for the American aloe (Agave americana ... pokes up a huge flowering stalk, thick as a tree trunk, from 15 ...

Her stalk will be cut off at its base and saved for future use, while the rest of the plant will be dug up and used for compost. The end of Alice’s life is the beginning of another plant’s growth.

When an Agave plant becomes sufficiently mature, its rosette generates a striking flower stalk that emerges from the center ...

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.

He was not the first to plant agave, but he has planted the most so far — roughly 400,000 plants on 340 acres. “We’re in a highly productive area,” Woolf told me last week. “We have ...

Waikulu Distillery owner Paul Turner stands in a Makawao field of blue agave plants Wednesday morning while describing the process of farming and distilling his premium agave spirit on Maui.

experts say the increasingly severe conditions are testing some iconic desert plants known for their resilience — including saguaro cacti and agave. “We saw damage to plants this summer that ...