ingo wrote:
> 
> Remco de Korte wrote:
> 
> >BTW I've seen these in bloom (?). The flowers can get a couple of
> >meters high and as far as I know they only get flowers once in every
> >fourteen years or so (and then die?).
> >So, here's some more trivia to correct me on ;)
> 
> That would be an Agave,
> the plant that Tequila
> is made of.

I had something like that near where I lived when I was young, and in
fact I was even there to see it bloom. (I don't remember if it died
afterwards.. it doesn't seem like it did.) We called it a "century
plant". I have no idea if that was an agave or not, but it wasn't a
yucca.. the leaves were much different.

-Xplo

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