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5. Beautiful how species have evolved traits

Sun Feb 22, 2015, 03:16 PM

Feb 2015

In a way it's saying I reproduce in this way because it has proven to work and current natural selection processes favor my way of doing things. True, I may not reproduce as fast as you do, but given where I live and the conditions I've been exposed to for millennia, I'd beat you in the long term if you had the same resources and were presented with the same circumstances I was given.

Just beautiful. I saw one that flowered when I was a child and thought, what a stupid plant.

I wonder if its seeds are sterile for living indoors all of it's life. Probably.

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Huge plant that waited 80 years to flower has month to live [View all] Omaha Steve Feb 2015 OP

Are they going to make tequila from it now? truthisfreedom Feb 2015 #1

Agave nectar is great too AndreaCG Feb 2015 #2

How so? SeattleVet Feb 2015 #10

I'm not a scientist but my understanding - with honey for example, and I imagine it is true of agave Voice for Peace Feb 2015 #11

They could make mescal from it Major Nikon Feb 2015 #4

Fun fact: Anything produced outside of Mexico can't be called Tequila. herding cats Feb 2015 #17

Gonna miss seeing this behemoth..... N_E_1 for Tennis Feb 2015 #3

Beautiful how species have evolved traits ffr Feb 2015 #5

Probably not sterile Treant Feb 2015 #8

Thank you for that. You sound like you know your stuff. ffr Feb 2015 #9

Cool! marym625 Feb 2015 #6

Are the seeds going to be replanted in the university? sakabatou Feb 2015 #7

We had one of those in the yard I grew up in. Trillo Feb 2015 #12

I've seen one in flower here in NM Warpy Feb 2015 #13

Cool! blkmusclmachine Feb 2015 #14

Hence its colloquial name, "century plant." okasha Feb 2015 #15

But what a beautiful flower! And surely the essence of the plant will LiberalLoner Feb 2015 #16