Botanical Nightmare

Thia is an awsome looking plant. what kind is it? Is it naturaly that gray?

Thanks for looking, Simon! It's a variety of agave and, yes, at least that gray: I did give the saturation a bit of a boost--but not much.

Hi Dave. Intriguing plants are these agaves, years growing, when the flowers appear they go to the end of life. Very nice shot this one. Here, where I live, there are lots of them around on the hills, they are "agave americana", in my last shots there is an uprooted one. Abrazos.

 

 

Of course, I had to go to a hot-house to find one ;~) It's well worth it in the depths of winter. Among other things, I'm fascinated by the way each leaf carries the imprint of it's neighbors.

What a strange effect from this picture. Superb color. Definitely the Sadam Hussein of the plant world.