The Thingy by maggiemae

The Thingy

Managed a bit of weeding today. This is an odd plant I’m not sure of the name. Maybe a large yucca thingy. The long pink arms/stalks come out like a giant giving you a punch!
I took one with my big camera on a zoom from my window then walked out on the wet grass to take this one with my phone. Better!

Apart from looking as if it is a series of laughing, baby kangaroos riding the back of a cactus, I have no idea what the name is!


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I would think its a yuka.. often they die off when they flower and small pups come off the side..
October 1st, 2019  
Wild!
October 1st, 2019  
I also thought it was one of the yucca family ! Nice colour , I had a cream- white coloured flower and it flowered every year , till it got too big and the roots gravitated under the fish pond !!. So , it had to have the chop !!
October 1st, 2019  
This is all it does, Beryl - that protuberance comes out further an further! @beryl Its very big.
October 1st, 2019  
@julzmaioro These long stalks die off every year and come again.
October 1st, 2019  
Nice looking plant means a nice looking photo!
October 1st, 2019  
fun description of the monster flower thingy - isn't it annoying when the phone takes a better picture - happens to me too.
October 1st, 2019  
@helenhall I can see my other two big cameras will rot in some corner or something!
October 1st, 2019  
is it an agave? I had one similar in my garden, it flowered like this after about 7 years and then died, one last hurrah! but it was magnificent, and lots of babies formed after the flowers so now i have several. but if it flowers every year perhaps it is a yucca instead
October 1st, 2019  
it is a pretty cool thingy maggie
October 1st, 2019  
Nicely captured
October 2nd, 2019  
What a cool looking plant and capture
October 2nd, 2019  
beautiful 'thingy'
October 2nd, 2019  
Nice capture, details
October 2nd, 2019  
Nice pov and details.
October 2nd, 2019  
Fascinating...especially with the addition of others' comments.
October 2nd, 2019  
Hmmm. Stay out of his way if he is punching
October 2nd, 2019  
Whatever it is, I love its flower
October 2nd, 2019  
Eyecatching..
October 3rd, 2019  
Wonderful colors!!
October 3rd, 2019  
@kali66 @julzmaioro @beryl I have discovered from a highly botanical source who is also a friend that the name is: Beschorneria yuccoides A relative of both the yucca and the agave!
Try and pronounce that!
October 4th, 2019  
@maggiemae Thats good to know..
October 4th, 2019  
@maggiemae Waw ! good to know , but will I remember that or even be able to pronounce it ! ! :)
October 4th, 2019  
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