BRENT: A giant Agave Americana plant at the Truman State University is getting ready to display its blooms for the first as well as last time in almost 50 years of its life.
This Agave Americana plant only blooms before its demise. The plant housed at the Truman State University’s greenhouse in Kirksville, Missouri, has entered its flowering stage, suggesting that it will die soon.
Greenhouse officials said good news about the plant was that it rose and would rise again. It would leave behind new plants at its base that would grow and take its place.
Jena Canfield, who managed the university’s greenhouse, said that some student workers first noticed a stalk shooting up on the plant a few weeks ago, and soon it started blooming.
The blooms went as high as the roof and the plant grew so fast that workers had to remove panels high above the greenhouse so that the plant could grow uninterruptedly.
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