Agave datylio

Agave datylio
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Agavoideae
Genus: Agave
Species: A. datylio
Binomial name
Agave datylio
Simon ex F.A.C.Weber

Agave datylio is a member of the Agavoideae subfamily and a succulent plant. It is native to Baja California Sur.[1][2]

Description

Agave datylio grows in a leaf rosette of about 3.3 feet (1.0 m) diameter. It has narrow, lanceolate leaves up to 2–2.6 ft (0.61–0.79 m) long, are grooved on top and with 1.6-inch (41 mm) spines at the tip, with 0.1–0.2-inch (2.5–5.1 mm) teeth spaced along the edges. The leaves are initially green when young, becoming yellow to a golden brown with age. The 1.6–2.2-inch (41–56 mm) flowers are greenish yellow, up to 55 mm (2.2 inches) long.[3]

Cultivation

Easy to garden, A. datylio prefers gentle slopes and open sunlight and propagates vetetatively, but can be propagated by seed.[4]

References

  1. Weber, Frederic Albert Constantin. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 8(3): 224. 1902.
  2. Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert, 2 vols. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  3. Gentry, H. S. 1982. Agaves of Continental North America i–xiv, 1–670. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
  4. The Complete Encyclopedia of Succulents by Zdenek Jezek and Libor Kunte


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