HOUSTON — It's almost like something out of a fairy tale: A giant stalk growing from the center of an agave plant is stopping residents of a small Houston neighborhood in their tracks. You may have ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, wait, it’s an incredibly tall flower that’s in perfect bloom in West Raleigh. The century plant (Agave americana) doesn’t take a full century to bloom, but it still ...

A century plant almost two stories high in a Texas neighborhood is about to flower for the only time in its life. The bizarre plant, which is in the backyard of a Houston home, is causing a spectacle ...

KENNETT SQUARE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Something very special is blooming at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa. right now. The rare century plant only flowers once every few decades. "In its ...

HOUSTON — Everything is bigger in Texas, including the vegetables. A century plant, related to the regular asparagus we get at the grocery store, is becoming a spectacle in Houston. It’s about two ...

Seemingly overnight, a Redding gardener said, a rather ordinary-looking plant growing in her yard suddenly developed a bright yellow-tipped, 17-foot-tall flower stalk. The plant sure had never bloomed ...

Texan botany is a crowded landscape, at least figuratively speaking. So many plants have become cherished state symbols: Bluebonnets are beautiful, prickly pears are rugged, and pecan trees are ...