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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