Herbarium of the Bizarre

Century Plant

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Happy New Years! 🧨 It’s not a new century, but we’re going to talk about the Century Plant anyway. Because I wanted to. It’s big and spiky, and once in a great while, it makes an asparagus tree (sort of).


Music by James Milor from Pixabay


Information provided by:

  1. https://facts.net/nature/plants/13-astounding-facts-about-century-plant/
  2. https://www.gardenia.net/plant/agave-americana-century-plant
  3. https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=agam
  4. https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/agave/
  5. https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/an-ode-to-the-century-plant/
  6. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_americana
  7. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/century-plant-bloom-palmdale-agave-americana/3190660/
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    Herbarium of the BizarreBy Meredith Hemphill