With reference to a recent article in the RECORD about the strange plant with the long stem, the following: This plant is an Agave and is exotic from South America.
Read: Help identify this plant
When the long stalk, which is the flower, has finished flowering the plant dies! When it does, please tell the resident who sent in the article to plant a South African aloe.
Wendy Hawkins
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