If the plants are endangered in Mexico, can’t we offer them asylum in the US?
But can it make tequila?
My neighbor that lives behind me has one that is just starting to bloom. It’s been interesting watching the stalks shoot up so quickly.
That seems to me to be an unusual plant
It lives 20 years but only reproduces once.
I/m not surprised that it is endangered. It does not seem like a very successful survival strategy.
It has the lifespan of a perennial but the reproduction cycle of an annual.
Sweeeeeeet.
The Agaves here in Austin can be huge. One recently blossomed on Koenig between I-35 and Lamar. I’ve seen dead stalks used as a kind of “Tex-Mex Christmas Tree.” Surprised to learn they are “endangered” in their native habitat. Agaves of whatever stripe they are here in Austin seem to be everywhere.
Thanks for that. I have a Century plant and a Blue Agave plant on my porch here in southern Ohio. The Century plant has produced several babies for my friends. I was watching an older movie with Warren Oates in Mexico and saw some that must have been seven feet tall and six feet across.
15 foot? I’ve seen far larger ones bloom in SoCal, more like twice that height. I didn’t think they were especially rare. Maybe this is a different variety.
This is what passes for news around here.