Agave art

There are hundreds of kinds of agave,  Here, in Oaxaca there are 38 known, but there are more out there, undiscovered for now. 

They are amazing plants.  Water, sugar, mezcal, paper, cloth, needle and thread, all can come from the agave.  The flowers tell a story.

And as for the flowers, it's one and done.  It's all downhill for the plant after that.

Some can take up to twenty five years to flower.  And they make mezcal out of most of them.