Agave deserti ‘Desert Agave’ or ‘Desert Century Plant’
Desert century-plant’s succulent, sword-like, blue-green leaves with sharp, minimal teeth and a rigid, incurable back create a basal clump 2 ft. high and also as much as 6 ft. vast. When the plants are 8-20 years of ages they send up a sturdy, 6-9 ft., flowering stalk birthing large, mounded collections of pale yellow, tubular blossoms. After establishing fruit, the whole plant passes away. The dried out seed pills remain obvious for several months.
The Century Plant belongs to the agave household (family Agavaceae). Agaves are stout plants with woody stems or stem-bases, typically tall, also tree-like, the long as well as slim leaves crowded in rosettes at ends of stems or branches, a stout quickly growing blossom stalk arising from the rosette. Century Plant kingdoms do not take a century to blossom, yet it might take them numerous years to store sufficient food books to supply the swiftly expanding stalk and also mature the seeds. Then the rosette, frequently representing the entire plant, dies.