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“Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?”
–Federico Calboli
I pretty bad too, but I think this is some kind of a bromeliad. Tropical Americas and one in west Africa says the Wiki.
Lindmania serrulata?
http://www.bsi.org/brom_info/gallery/Lindmania/serrulata.html
from here
http://www.bsi.org/
Just to help out a little, the “bloom” is over 6 feet tall, and probably 16-18″ in circumfrence at the base. The property owner is certain it’s interstellar in origin..
Oh yeah, it says its name is Audrey.
I also think that it is a bromeliad. This family of plants is fairly common in tropical America.
There are a number of creatures – notably birds, insects, and crabs that have adapted to the niche created by these tree dwelling plants.
We used to see these in Santa Barbara all the time. It’s a type of agave – Swan’s neck agave (Agave attenuata).
That looks like a winnah! I passed the link on to Dr Rose, who called *me* “brilliant”..(sorry Reid). She said it’s on a 15 month bloom cycle,and this year it got so big it fell over. She feels the base plant may be dying. She’s also happy to know she’s not slated for future alien abduction.
Well even if it isn’t interstellar, it certainly looks like something out of “The Little Shop of Horrors” (FEED ME!!)