Furcraea bedinghausii

This is one of the wonders of the plant world. Handsome grey succulent leaves a metre or more long form a large rosette on top of a metre tall trunk and, when inclined after several years, it sends up a flower stem 4 to 5 metres tall which holds weeping branches carrying hundreds of greeny white bell flowers. The plant then dies but sets lots of new plant bulbils. The plant pictured hadn’t been watered for five years and grew in a very exposed paddock. Rarely Offered