An agave plant growing beside a cabbage tree in a garden at Wadestown, Wellington, has burst into bloom after 25 years of growth. After the agave don this funeral plumage it dies down, but suckers are frequently produced from the base of the stem and become new pants.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 67, 6 April 1937, Page 11
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48An agave plant growing beside a cabbage tree in a garden at Wadestown, Wellington, has burst into bloom after 25 years of growth. After the agave don this funeral plumage it dies down, but suckers are frequently produced from the base of the stem and become new pants. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 67, 6 April 1937, Page 11
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