Nigel Brown with the
century plant he planted 28 years ago which has burst through the greenhouse roof at Bangor University's Treborth botanic garden Picture: GERALLT RADCUFFE RAD110907CenturyPlant-1
Century plants split broken, almost impassable steps--they flower every hundred years.
One area of the peninsula is covered almost exclusively in
century plants -- once thought to flower every hundred years.
The arboretum is also home to a hillside full of so-called
century plants.
This discrepancy could be because the analyzed RG10 and
Century plants were not the actual parents used to produce [F.