Furcraea tuberosa

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Furcraea tuberosa, Ait. (F. interrupta, F. spinosa, Agave spinosa, A. campanulata, A. tuberosa, Yucca superba, Auct.). Nearly trunkless: lvs. broadly lanceolate, nearly flat, 8x50-70 in.; teeth usually 1/5 in. long and 2/3 – 1 1/3 in. apart, sometimes absent toward the end or below: infl. 25 ft.: caps, unknown: freely bulbiferous, the bulbels elongated. Cuba and Haiti and, in somewhat differing forms, in Porto Rico and through the Lesser Antilles. Rep. Mo. Bot. Card. 18:1-4. R.H. 1877, p. 233. Cycle. Amer. Agric., II. p. 290. Gt. 1852:3. Yearbook Dept. Agric. 1904:31. Ann. Mus. Firenze. 1:4. Commelin, Hort. Amts. 2:19. —Commonly called silk-grass, sometimes maguey or cocuiza: apparently the Haitian cabuya of early writers. With the teeth twinned, as they are sometimes in F. selloa and characteristically in F. humboldtiana, it is Var. geminispina (F. geminispina, Ait.) William Trelease. CH 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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References

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

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