Agave stalk
Specifically, I think a green maguey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_salmiana
Thanks. Interesting looking things. Are the bushy structures flowers?
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 like shown in your photo.
Spicate are simply spikes with little to no branching. Foxtail agave, Agave attenuata, is a good example shown below:
Sorry for the TMI dump.
Don’t apologize for sharing knowledge.
Yes. They grow that stalk and flower and then die. The plant in the foreground 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…Some species with flower repeatedly, some are growing for 30 years to build up enough energy to flower once and then they die.
I think that they may mean that the flowering stalk dies off, not the whole plant. That’s how aloe do.
Not a tree. Looks like the flower from century plant or a relative
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. :-)
Cool. You know you can make tequila from them, eh?
Not Tequila, but perhaps Mezcal (wrong type of agave).
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? 🤔
I’m in Bolivia rn, just saw the same plants, about 50 of them all together in the city of La Paz.
When the Na’vi touch this, they get Max Health +
