Agave Takedown

The 80-year-old American agave plant that spent the summer of 2014 blooming for the first - and last - time in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens was cut down and removed Wednesday. The flower stalk grew to more than 28 feet and once it bloomed the parent plant died, but not before sending out hundreds of flower buds.
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