Q: When I was at the Ruth Bancroft Garden for the plant sale, I was told that the Agave parrasana plant — the subject of the column that came out that day — was being pollinated to make seeds.

A rare South American Puya raimondii plant, known for taking up to 100 years to bloom, has started to pop in Berkeley after just 24, which may be a world record. Planted as a seed in 1990 at the ...

Rare '100-year' flower blooms in California 01:52. They say the best things in life are worth waiting for. And for most people, the chance to see this rare endangered plant bloom will only come ...

Puya Raimondii: The 40-Foot ... After creating a large display of white flowers and producing anywhere between 6 to 12 million seeds, P. raimondii pops it metaphorical, plant-based clogs.

Such is the case with the exotic, slow-growing puya plant, now blooming for the first time in more than 20 years at Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens in Long Beach. And when we say ...

In the wild, Puya chilensis uses its spines to trap sheep, which then fertilize the plant as they rot. In captivity, it is perfectly safe, say horticulturists who are definitely humans and not ...

Puya chilensis is a very large bromeliad, native to the mountains of Chile. Bromeliads are spiky, mostly tropical, mostly New-World plants, the best-known of which is probably the pineapple. But ...