'Durango Delight' (Agave schidigera) is a compact agave type with dense leaves accented by curly white hairs. When it flowers, it sends up a red purple bloom on a stalk up to 10 feet tall. It's hardy ...

Rare bloom cycle: Agaves flower just once in their lifetime, often after decades, producing towering stalks before the parent ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A high priority is spacing pups to accommodate growth. Most mature agaves generate offsets (rhizomatous suckers) called “pups.” This is a vegetative or ...

MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked. A decade later, his ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the southeast tip of a large valley in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental is the small Mexican ...

That strange “worm” at the bottom of some mezcal bottles has finally been identified, and the answer overturns decades of ...

Even though agave plants can get quite large, you might wonder how much tequila an agave can produce. Find what impacts how ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started ...