The century plant typically blooms once after 10 to 30 years, not a century. The hardy succulent has been utilized for ...

Its strong spine grows a stalk that can reach upward of 30 feet when blooming. Longwood staff members first got wind that the century plant was ready to bloom in February of this year when the ...

An agave “century plant” said to bloom only once every ... the center stem had started to grow and confirmed that it was blooming on July 10. The plant now towers 7.7 meters tall.

But it wasn't until the turn of the century that plant ... thousands of varieties of repeat-blooming roses owe their parentage to roses from China. This perennial plant illustrates how Chinese ...

Purple loosestrife, which is blooming 24 days earlier than it did a century ago ... a familiar native plant in Concord, blooms only about a day earlier than it did in the early 1900s.

"It's really important to look across the plant kingdom because plants have solved so many problems already. Why not read their genomes like a book and try to understand it and solve the problems ...