Another Agave blooms and dies, and the press takes notice. This time in South Carolina. I should probably have an entire separate category for these news items, they’re so common. At least this one includes a photo.
Impressive.
Brenda Turner stands with her 20-year old Century Cactus in the backyard of her West Marion home. Recently, Turner’s plant began sprouting the spike filled with buds. Once the plant blooms, it will die.
I wonder why this is news? I mean, I know why I post it - it has a photo, and it has the spectacle of a “legitimate” newspaper writing about a single succulent in someone’s backyard, but why does the newspaper publish it? Maybe this is the very cause of their impending demise.
Anyway, congrats to Brenda for getting into her local paper with a dying plant.
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June 21st, 2009 at 7:20 am
Ours has not died yet… hope it hangs on…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jazzimus/sets/72157617642037766/
June 21st, 2009 at 9:21 am
Michael – You should try to get your local newspaper to write an article about your dying agave. That would be very cool.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:10 am
The way I understood it is that this cactus dies after 100 years (century)
July 29th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
The Century Plant usually refers to a succulent, the Agave americana, which generally lives 40 to 60 years and then sends up a giant bloomstalk and dies.
All agaves are succulents, and often called Century Plants, and they all send up bloom stalks and die, however most do not live even 40 years.