An agave “century plant” said to bloom only once ... into the park on July 14 to see and photograph the rare flowers. The plant is an agave americana glowing near the pelican fountain in ...

When the specimen was first discovered, scientists mistakenly classified it as an extinct flowering evergreen plant named Stewartia kowalewskii. Then, for a century and a half, the large blossom ...

But it wasn't until the turn of the century that plant hunters, including Ernest ... This tall primrose with whorls of bell-shaped flowers was the first species named for Wilson.