A few plants and a conifer, too. From the Schoenberg neighborhood.
Autumn Leaves in Berlin
Tag: botany
Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic
Something called the Century Plant is going to qualify as a relic today.
My friend Kristin had been sending me photos of the Agave Americana (known as the Century Plant) as it was growing in her family’s front yard on
St. George Island. When I went down for vacation I got to see it first hand. I couldn’t believe how tall it had grown.
It is definitely at least twenty + feet tall!
It was preparing to be in full bloom- and then it will die. I saw some other Century Plants on the island in different stages of their life cycle.
Kristin sent me these photos on the phone and said, “Wait until you come and see it in person.” She wasn’t kidding. I took some photos of it too.
How it starts out
It is really TALL
How it starts. The mother plant sends out “pups”
Look at the thickness of the stalk
I used a flash at sunset and it makes the buds look interesting.
A shot at night
Agave Americana with the American Flag
Someone else’s Century Plant fell over.
Orchid Cactus’ Short Bloom
My friend Kristin sent this beautiful Orchid Cactus (epiphyllum) blossom from Florida- on the phone!
I invited her to guest blog it. I had never seen an orchid cactus before.
The cactus blooms once a summer and the flower lasts about 24 hours.
Glenn Rice’s page states “Opens and closes in a single night” opens and closes on a single night
That’s it. A beautiful short life.
Kristin got the cactus at a local/ native nursery.
From behind the bloom
Thanks Kristin for sending the beautiful blossom. I forgot to ask if it has a scent.