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Agave americana subsp. var.

Century plant

Habit:		cacti-succulent
Height:	⇕	to
Width:	⇔	to
	17 ft 50 ft	12 ft
Height:	⇕	17 ft to 50 ft
Width:	⇔	The wikipage input value is empty (e.g. <code>SomeProperty::, [[]]</code>) and therefore it cannot be used as a name or as part of a query condition. to 12 ft
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial
Origin:	✈
Poisonous:	☠
Bloom:	❀	early summer, mid summer, late summer

Exposure:	☼	sun, part-sun
Water:	◍	moderate, dry
Features:	✓	evergreen, flowers, foliage, drought tolerant
Hidden fields, interally pass variables to right place
Minimum Temp:	☃	°F
USDA Zones:		8 to 11
Sunset Zones:		10, 12-30
Flower features:	❀	orange, yellow

Agavaceae >

Agave

americana

var.

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[hide]Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Agave americana, Linn. (A. altlssima, Zumag. A. europaea, Vis. A. ramosa, Moench. A. spectabilis, Salisb.). Lvs. lanceolate, 6-8 x 60-80 in., smooth, gray, ascending with outcurved ends, with rather short and stout recurved round-grooved very shortly decurrent spine obliquely flattened at base, and moderately large gray prickles on prominent marginal elevations: infl. 20-30 ft., rather slender; fls. 2 1/2-2 3/4 in.; ovary 1 1/4 in., segm. 1 in., tube 1/2 in. Mex.(?). Established around the Medit.—The plant more commonly cult. in this country as A. americana has narrower, more hooked lvs., as in the next, but grayer and with the short recurved spine scarcely decurrent and round at base, var. Milleri, Baker (A. Milleri, Haw.? A. virginia, Mill.? A. laetevirens and A. americana laetevirens, Hort.?) Variegated forms of this, frequently grown, are var. margínata in yellow- or white-margined forms, var. striata variously lined with yellow or white, and var. medio-picta with a broad median yellow band. Wiesner Festschr., pl. 6. A reputed hybrid between A. americana and A. densiflora is x A. massiliensis. Hort. Deleuil. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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Agave americana var. 'americana'
Agave americana cv. 'Medio-Picta'
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References

Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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-Agave americana, Linn. (A. altlssima, Zumag. A. europaea, Vis. A. ramosa, Moench. A. spectabilis, Salisb.). Lvs. lanceolate, 6-8 x 60-80 in., smooth, gray, ascending with outcurved ends, with rather short and stout recurved round-grooved very shortly decurrent spine obliquely flattened at base, and moderately large gray prickles on prominent marginal elevations: infl. 20-30 ft., rather slender; fls. 2 1/2-2 3/4 in.; ovary 1 1/4 in., segm. 1 in., tube 1/2 in. Mex.(?). Established around the Medit. Penzig, Fl. Litt. Med., pl. 140. Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., pl. 374. B H. 9, p. 308. R. H. 1875, p. 152. Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 11, pl. 79, 81. Adamovic, Pflanzenw. Dalmat., pl. 1. Abhandl. Hamburg. Kolon. Inst. 6, p. 64. G.W. 8, p. 337. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 49, pl. 32.—The plant more commonly cult. in this country as A. americana has narrower, more hooked lvs., as in the next, but grayer and with the short recurved spine scarcely decurrent and round at base, var. Milleri, Baker (A. Milleri, Haw.? A. virginia, Mill.? A. laetevirens and A. americana laetevirens, Hort.?) Variegated forms of this, frequently grown, are var. margínata in yellow- or white-margined forms, var. striata variously lined with yellow or white, and var. medio-picta with a broad median yellow band. Wiesner Festschr., pl. 6. A reputed hybrid between A. americana and A. densiflora is x A. massiliensis. Hort. Deleuil.
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