It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. That is where a desert-native ...

The succulent is native to several dry, hot areas of the Americas, mostly Mexico and the Caribbean. The sap of agave plants, which is toxic to people if it's not cooked, is harvested from the ...

It's still growing, and growing, and growing. Like the beanstalk from the famous fable, the stalk of an 80-year-old American agave plant at the University of Michigan is so tall, it's through the ...

The once-in-a-lifetime flowering event for the plant will attract pollinators like bats, bees and hummingbirds. And it can ...

Many succulents can be found in local landscapes such as agave, yucca, bulbine, baby sunrose, etc. Succulent plants also make great container plants. Clay, or terra cotta, containers are ...

ERIC PAUL ZAMORA [email protected] Woolf was thinking about the agave plant: The large, fleshy, drought-resistant succulent is used to make tequila and mezcal in Mexico, where the plant is ...