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Choice of Plant Names

Agave glomeruliflora

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Agave gracillima

 

 

Agave ×gracilipes Trelease


Naturally occuring hybrid between Agave neomexicana and Agave lechuguilla

© Julia Etter & Martin Kristen


First Description


Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden 22: 95, 1912




Literature


Gentry, H. S.: Agaves of Continental North America: 526-530, 1982

 
 

Basic Data

Subgenus

Littaea X Agave

Section

Natural Hybrids

Diameter

up to 50cm

Inflorescence

Flower Color

unknown

Flowering Time

Reproduction

suckers, seed

Common Name


Natural Location

Occurrence

New Mexico, Texas, Chihuahua


Horticulture Summer

Exposition

sunny to half shady

Watering

plenty


Horticulture Winter

Temperature

keep frost free

Soil

keep totally dry


Remarks

One of the few natural hybrids between the subgenus Littaea and Agave, possibly Agave lechuguilla and Agave neomexicana





 

 


 

Pictures taken at natural locality

 

Young

Adult

Inflorescence

Flower

Various

Various

Various

 

Various

Various

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Pictures taken in horticulture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choice of Plant Names

Agave glomeruliflora

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Agave gracillima

 

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