Century plant. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY ANNA TOCONIS
According to Susan Brown, a Master Gardener with the New Hanover County Arboretum, the plant at 319 Anderson St. in Wilmington is a century plant, or Agave aka Agave americana.
A century plant lives for 10 to 25 years (the “century” is an exaggeration), Brown said, before it uses all its reserves to produce a magnificent flower stalk that can be 15 feet tall. After that the original plant dies but is replaced by small offshoots around the base.
Date posted: July 21, 2016
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