The flower spike has grown to almost 6 feet now and is amazingly spectacular.
Extravagant
pink/green/red flower spikes in early summer makes this weird but truly wonderful plant
from Mexico a great addition to
the garden.
Both its flowers, reddish panicles covered in funnel shaped bright
green-red flowers and yucca like foliage, agave like soft blue-green leaves,
certainly pack a punch and provide architectural interest!
The Genus, Beschorneria, of the Agavaceae family,
was named in honour of Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Beschorner, 1806-73, a German
amateur botanist.
