Reaching for the Sky?

This Agave americana flower seems almost as tall as the mast and satellite dishes.

Each rosette is monocarpic and grows slowly to flower only once. During flowering, a tall stem or "mast" grows from the center of the leaf rosette and bears a large number of short, tubular flowers. After development of fruit, the original plant dies, but suckers are frequently produced from the base of the stem, which become new plants.
[from [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave]Wikipedia[/url]]