Agave Next Door

Agave

Agave March 24th

Agave

Agave April 19th

Agave Teeth

Agave Digging Into Itself

Agave Teeth

Agave Scrapes and Scars

What happens after an agave blooms? According to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum this is what happens to most agaves after they bloom–

“In all but a few species the rosette dies after flowering and fruiting, having spent all of its life energy to produce a huge quantity of seeds-a monocarpic (once-fruiting) life cycle. The plants literally flower themselves to death.”