Agave is a genus of monocots. The plants are perennial, but each rosette flowers once and then dies (see semelparity). Some species are known by the name century plant.[3]
In the APG III system, the genus is placed in the subfamily Agavoideae of the broadly circumsc
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80-year-old wonder: U-M's agave plant on verge of blooms
Once-in-a-lifetime blooms on an 80-year-old American agave plant at the University of Michigan's Matthaei Botanical Gardens have yet to open, but anticipation for the big event has drawn huge crowds to the Ann Arbor gardens.
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