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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Agave angustifolia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Agave angustifolia, Haw. (A. lurida, Jacq. A. Jacquiniana, Schult. f. A. ixtlioldes, Hook. A. Wightii, Prain. A. vivipara, Auct.). Short-trunked : lvs. 3 x 16-24 in., gray-green, with flat spine and slender-cusped prickles: infl. few-branched; fls. 1 1/2-2 in.; segms. and ovary 3/4 in. each, tube 1/2 in.: caps.subglobose, strongly stipitate and beaked. Cent. Amer. (?). Jacq., Obs. Bot. 4, pl. 1. Targioni Tozzetti, Ann. Firenze. 2, pl. 6. Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Or. 2024. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 19, pl. 29-34. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 49, pl. 32. Mem. Nat. Acad. 11, pl. 106-109. A form with white-margined lvs. is var. marginata, Trel. (A vivipara variegata and A. superba, Hort.), Wiesner Festschr., pl. 8, and a variant of this with the body color gray-green is var. Woodrowii, Trel. (A Woodrowii, Wats., and A. Cookei, Woodrow), Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 19, pl. 35. A dwarf form of the unvariegated type is var. Sargentii, Trel., Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 22, pl. 100-103. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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