Century Plant

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/