Giant cactus smashes greenhouse roof

A 60-year old cactus plant exploded to a height of 25 feet, destroying a greenhouse roof during the growth spurt.

From the BBC:

A huge plant has had an unexpected growth spurt causing it to smash through a couple's greenhouse roof.

The plant, which is between 55 and 60-years-old, now stands at more than 25 feet (7.6 meters) in the village of Candlesby in Lincolnshire.

The Agave salmiana, of the ferox variety, has also started flowering.

It is a type of succulent but grower Mink Sumner-Wilson said a lot of people would describe it as a cactus.

She and her husband bought it from a nursery in France in about 1968 and did not expect it to flower in their lifetime.

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