@DialMforMara This is an agave. As in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave. The kind we have live for 50-60 years and at the end, they grow this (apparently) enormous fuck-off asparagus-lookin' stalk that grows super tall super fast (like days) and then sprouts those branch-looking things, which it flowers from. The bees went gonzo on those things.

Then it dies and dries up. We expected it to fall over, but it's been dead and drying for about a year, so we decided to cut it down before it+