UK: Rare spectacle as 'Century Plant' blooms at Ramsgate greenhouse
An American agave at the Italianate Greenhouse, in King George VI Memorial Park, is in bloom for the first and only time in its life.
Specimens can grow for between 80 and 100 years before flowering and dying shortly afterwards. For this reason, the species is commonly known as the century plant.
A stalk, which now rises more than 30 feet in the air, began sprouting around six weeks ago as the plant prepared to bloom.
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