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Adjective: late-blooming
  1. Flowering or reaching maturity later in the growing season
    "Chrysanthemums are common late-blooming plants";
    - autumn-flowering, autumn-blooming, fall-flowering [N. Amer], fall-blooming [N. Amer], late-flowering
     
  2. Developing, maturing, or achieving success relatively late
    "He was a late-blooming artist who found success in his fifties";
    - late-flowering

See also: autumnal