{"id":303427,"date":"2026-05-07T00:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303427\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:21:12","slug":"century-plant-surprises-long-beach-business-with-rare-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303427\/","title":{"rendered":"Century plant surprises Long Beach business with rare bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 Something unusual is growing outside of Shaggy Chic Pet Salon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Something unusual is growing outside of Shaggy Chic Pet Salon.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DFH3JFXDZVEU5H5LLQ37E5OIFQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Something unusual is growing outside of Shaggy Chic Pet Salon.(wlox)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A century plant, or \u201cdeath bloom,\u201d is blooming. It is something most people never get to see. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The plant is known for blooming up to 25 feet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Century plant surprises Long Beach business with rare bloom\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IOYGL7VUHVGKPNNWJ6AMKFNTHE.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Century plant surprises Long Beach business with rare bloom(wlox)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rosa Vera, an employee, said she thought it was just a normal plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe moved to this building a couple months ago, and it used to be just like that big plant out front. And now it\u2019s, I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s just like one day it was there, one day it wasn\u2019t there, and one day it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Century plant surprises Long Beach business with rare bloom\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LR5JIKDOOZGSRAHOYEEK2M7WT4.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Century plant surprises Long Beach business with rare bloom(wlox)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bloom signals the end of the plant\u2019s life cycle; it\u2019s a rare and fleeting moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 Something unusual is growing outside of Shaggy Chic Pet Salon. Something unusual is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-303427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}