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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 |
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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 |
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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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What the heck is this monster?
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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What the heck is this monster?
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. |
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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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What the heck is this monster?
Here are a few more photos. One has a human in it for scale:
http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=504651 |
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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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What the heck is this monster?
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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What the heck is this monster?
"Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan" wrote in
: FragileWarrior dropped this turd : in rec.gardens 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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What the heck is this monster?
FragileWarrior wrote:
"Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan" wrote in : FragileWarrior dropped this turd : in rec.gardens 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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What the heck is this monster?
I thought it looked just like the yucca I have almost ready to bloom in my front yard. -- BetsyB "Sheldon" wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
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What the heck is this monster?
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:27:04 +0000 (UTC), FragileWarrior
wrote: "Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan" wrote in : FragileWarrior dropped this turd : in rec.gardens 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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What the heck is this monster?
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. |
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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 |
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