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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Environment
Oliver Povey

‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ plant death bloom begins at Kew Gardens

The Agave montana is in the Rock Garden at Kew Gardens (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Wire)

A rare death bloom has begun for a three-metre plant at Kew Gardens which will come to the end of its life with a spectacular display.

The agave montana was planted around 20 years ago and once it blooms it will open up into a massive inflorescence – a cluster of thousands of individual flowers.

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