First Description

Hortus Kewensis 1: 472, 1789

Synonyms

Agave breviscapa Berger ex Roster (1916)
    (Bullettino della Reale Società Toscana d’Orticultura 4(1): 36, 1916)

Agave cyanophylla Jacobi (1866)
    (Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung 22: 175, 1866)

Agave lepida Dietrich (1840)
    (Synopsis Plantarum [D. Dietrich] 2: 1192, 1840)

Agave manguai Desfontaines (1815)
    (Tableau de l'École de Botanique du Jardin du Roi, ed. 2: 33, 1815)

Agave mexicana Lamarck (1783)
    (Encyclopédie méthodique: botanique 1(1): 52, 1783)

Agave polyphylla Koch (1860)
    (Wochenschrift des Vereines zur Beförderung des Gartenbaues in den Königlich Preussischen Staaten 3: 38, 1860)

Agave vera-cruz Miller (1768)
    (Gardeners Dictionary, ed. 8, Agave No. 7, 1768)

Agave verae-crucis Haworth (1812)
    (Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum: 72, 1812)

Agave vernae Berger (1915)
    (Die Agaven: 245, 1915)

Literature

Gentry, H. S.: Agaves of Continental North America: 292-294, 1982

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Basic Data

Subgenus

Agave

Section

Agave

Diameter

up to 340cm

Inflorescence

Flower Color

greenish-yellow

Flowering Time

Reproduction

seed

Common Name

Natural Location

Occurrence

Oaxaca

Remarks

Agave lurida (Aiton) is probably not the wild plant with which Gentry connects it (BU)

Newly found thus new name necessary

Indoor Summer

Exposition

sunny

Watering

moderately

Indoor Winter

Temperature

keep over 6°C / 43°F

Soil

keep totally dry

Outdoor

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Hardiness