Common along roadsides and waste places. Some specimens appx. 12 to 15 feet tall.
Growing in cracks in concrete. Long, thin leaves. All green. The plant in this picture is maybe six inches long.
In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia (Greek: ἀμβÃÂοÃία) is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods, often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumes it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves (Odyssey xii.62), so may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth.
