QuilotoaWeird tree, El Salvador
There’s no such thing as a tree.
Or plenty of unrelated stuff is “trees” to the point that any random plant can evolve into one (and probably has, at some point). Same difference.
Let this thing be a tree if it wants to. It has as much of a right to it as any other so called “tree”.
dustbinSpecifically, I think a green maguey en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_salmiana
Yes. They grow that stalk and flower and then die. The plant in the forefront will do the same one day.
Sure they die?
At least the agave on my windowsill grew one last year but is still totally alive and kicking right now…
At least the agave on my windowsill grew one last year but is still totally alive and kicking right now…
Jerb322I think that they may mean that the flowering stalk dies off, not the whole plant. That’s how aloe do.
apfelwoiSchoppenAgaves are broadly monocarpic, meaning that they only flower once and die. Some have species do not though, and some individuals do not. Agaves are closely related to and can hybridize with manfredas, which are not monocarpic.
The world of plants is a big beautiful mess.
It is common in that lineage of plants. Fwiw that lineage is named for the asparagus, Asparagaceae, and most of those in that family have similar inflorescences.
Agave is split between between inflorescent traits, arborescent and spicate.
Arborescent is tree like with branching inflorescences. Spicate are simply spikes with little to no branching. Foxtail agave, Agave attenuata, is a good example shown below:
l had a small version of this with tiny white blossoms on my windowsill last year, where I cultivate some agaves.
I was very proud and happy. :-)
Not Tequila, but perhaps Mezcal.
Production volume of my 0.2 sqm agave window would be pretty limited, though… ;-)
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 It ain’t one of them antennas dressed up like a tree is it? 🤔
When the Na’vi touch this, they get Max Health +