American agave plants are known for their fairly fatalistic life cycles: live, die, repeat. After blooming, the plants are expected to die shortly thereafter, usually leaving behind clones of ...

AHUALULCO, Mexico — Tequila could be the ruin of Fernando Chavarin. The sugar-cane farmer has invested $18,000 to grow agave, the spiky plant and raw material for Mexico’s national liquor. He couldn’t ...

MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked. A decade later, his ...

For most garden plants, flowering is a sign of renewed life. That’s not the case with the succulent blue agave (Agave tequilana). Like other agaves, tequilana flowers only at the end of the plant’s ...

"This column focuses on foliage in various rosette forms, in which leaves radiate from a short stem or a compressed growing ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — An Agave plant at Western Michigan University's Finch Greenhouse is getting a lot of attention from botany enthusiasts around the region. No magic beans were involved, but rather an ...

The agave genus consists of about 200 recognized diverse species of succulent perennials, mostly originating in Mexico. Many of the species are monocarpic (bearing fruit once and then dying.) Related ...

It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first—and only—time in its life. “Meet Agave ...

There’s a monster in Nancy and Jack Geerlings’ backyard in Newport Beach — and it’s been growing. “Our neighbors keep coming in and saying, ‘Oh my gosh,’ ” Nancy Geerlings said, shading her eyes to ...

Standing an impressive 12 feet tall with vibrant yellow flowers at its tip, the agave plant is in bloom at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. The plant, whose Latin name is Agave parryi, has been at the ...

In Aztec culture, the goddess Mayahuel represented fertility and the agave plant, making her a fitting namesake for the majestic, decades-old agave Americana that grows in the center of the desert ...

Scientists in Australia think hardy agave plants could be the next big biofuel source. In addition, the bioethanol produced from the plants could help fill unprecedented global demand for hand ...