What the heck is this monster?
 

A friend posted this on another newsgroup. He saw it yesterday while on a
bike ride. This is scary.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504637

What the heck is this monster?
 

FragileWarrior wrote:
A friend posted this on another newsgroup. He saw it yesterday while on a
bike ride. This is scary.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504637

I doubt it's cactus... I'd say it's a bromeliad. Could even be a
doctored picture. I don't feel like spending my time searching right
now but I found this: http://www.mrbig.com/cpg/displayimag...lbum=73&pos=18

What the heck is this monster?
 

FragileWarrior wrote:
A friend posted this on another newsgroup. He saw it yesterday while on a
bike ride. This is scary.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504637

Its a century plant, or Maguey.
--
Grandpa

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On Jun 14, 7:16?pm, Grandpa wrote:
FragileWarrior wrote:
A friend posted this on another newsgroup. He saw it yesterday while on a
bike ride. This is scary.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504637

Its a century plant, or Maguey.
--
Grandpa

Thank you.

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Grandpa wrote in news:T_jci.7901$1o.5514@trnddc01:

FragileWarrior wrote:
A friend posted this on another newsgroup. He saw it yesterday while
on a bike ride. This is scary.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504637

Its a century plant, or Maguey.

Thanks, I'll pass the info along. (And, no, it's not a doctored photo. :)

What the heck is this monster?
 

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:55:48 +0000 (UTC), FragileWarrior
wrote:

Grandpa wrote in news:T_jci.7901$1o.5514@trnddc01:

FragileWarrior wrote:
A friend posted this on another newsgroup. He saw it yesterday while
on a bike ride. This is scary.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504637

Its a century plant, or Maguey.

Thanks, I'll pass the info along. (And, no, it's not a doctored photo. :)

Unfortunately, this form of agave will die after flowering. It does
leave what are called pups, which can be cut from the mother plant and
replanted after the mother plant is removed.

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Here are a few more photos. One has a human in it for scale:
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504651

What the heck is this monster?
 

FragileWarrior expounded:

Here are a few more photos. One has a human in it for scale:
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504651

Ayup, like the first picture says, it's a Bit Mutha Cactus! G

I like the way they clipped the ends off so pedestrians didn't impale
themselves on it, good thinking! ;-

(and yes, I realize it's an agave, but when I saw that caption I LOLd!
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
******************************

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In article .com,
Sheldon wrote:

FragileWarrior wrote:
A friend posted this on another newsgroup. He saw it yesterday while on a
bike ride. This is scary.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504637

I doubt it's cactus... I'd say it's a bromeliad. Could even be a
doctored picture. I don't feel like spending my time searching right
now but I found this:
http://www.mrbig.com/cpg/displayimag...lbum=73&pos=18

Don't mind him. He's a pervert. Tequila on the hoof,
huh?

- Billy
Coloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly)

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"Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan" wrote in
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FragileWarrior dropped this turd
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Grandpa wrote in news:T_jci.7901$1o.5514@trnddc01:

FragileWarrior wrote:
A friend posted this on another newsgroup. He saw it yesterday
while on a bike ride. This is scary.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504637

Its a century plant, or Maguey.

Thanks, I'll pass the info along. (And, no, it's not a doctored
photo. :)


I saw it in the other group. Awesome thing isn't it?

Michael


It's really cool. I want one. But I want one that eats little kids.

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FragileWarrior wrote:
"Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan" wrote in
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FragileWarrior dropped this turd
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Grandpa wrote in news:T_jci.7901$1o.5514@trnddc01:

FragileWarrior wrote:
A friend posted this on another newsgroup. He saw it yesterday
while on a bike ride. This is scary.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504637
Its a century plant, or Maguey.
Thanks, I'll pass the info along. (And, no, it's not a doctored
photo. :)

I saw it in the other group. Awesome thing isn't it?

Michael


It's really cool. I want one. But I want one that eats little kids.

Then get two or three, and space them about 10 feet apart. They are
a southwest desert plant (notice the Arizona license plate?). If you
get them from the same mother plant, they usually bloom the same
year. That makes an impressive display.
--
Grandpa

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I thought it looked just like the yucca I have almost ready to bloom in my
front yard.
--



BetsyB



"Sheldon" wrote in message
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FragileWarrior wrote:
A friend posted this on another newsgroup. He saw it yesterday while on
a
bike ride. This is scary.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504637

I doubt it's cactus... I'd say it's a bromeliad. Could even be a
doctored picture. I don't feel like spending my time searching right
now but I found this:
http://www.mrbig.com/cpg/displayimag...lbum=73&pos=18

What the heck is this monster?
 

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:27:04 +0000 (UTC), FragileWarrior
wrote:

"Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan" wrote in
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FragileWarrior dropped this turd
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Grandpa wrote in news:T_jci.7901$1o.5514@trnddc01:

FragileWarrior wrote:
A friend posted this on another newsgroup. He saw it yesterday
while on a bike ride. This is scary.

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504637

Its a century plant, or Maguey.

Thanks, I'll pass the info along. (And, no, it's not a doctored
photo. :)


I saw it in the other group. Awesome thing isn't it?

Michael


It's really cool. I want one. But I want one that eats little kids.


We had some in Hawaii that would. Very sharp points, and recurved
spikes along the edges of the leaves. Not something to get tangled up
in.

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On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:47:07 GMT, Grandpa wrote:

Then get two or three, and space them about 10 feet apart. They are
a southwest desert plant (notice the Arizona license plate?). If you
get them from the same mother plant, they usually bloom the same
year. That makes an impressive display.

I have a bunch of these and they are starting to grow and do their
thing now. I got them all from the same mother, so will have that
awesome display.

What the heck is this monster?
 

jangchub wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:47:07 GMT, Grandpa wrote:

Then get two or three, and space them about 10 feet apart. They are
a southwest desert plant (notice the Arizona license plate?). If you
get them from the same mother plant, they usually bloom the same
year. That makes an impressive display.

I have a bunch of these and they are starting to grow and do their
thing now. I got them all from the same mother, so will have that
awesome display.

envy Please post some pictures when they bloom. Mine are going to
be at least a decade away.
--
Grandpa