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Agave americana - Century Plants Growing Wild and Flowering


Agave americana - Century Plants Growing Wild and Flowering (Agave americana - Century Plants)

Century Plants growing wild on the side of the mesa on which I live. There's literally many thousands of the of these wild Agave populations all over California. Posted for my GoY friend Sandra.
Photo taken August 8, 2010.



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They really are huge..:o)))

6 Aug, 2010

 

Mushybanna:

Yes, the can grow very big...the flower spikes grow to 30 - 40 feet and very occasionally they may even reach 50 feet.

7 Aug, 2010



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