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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Agave albicans in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Agave albicans, Jacobi (A. micracantha albidior), Salm-Dyck. A. Ousselghemiana, Jacobi). Trunkless, cespitose: lvs. oblanceo- late, 4 x 12-15 in., spreading, glaucous, thin, with small, needle-shaped, narrowly grooved spine and close-set, minute, brown prickles connected by a papery margin: infl. scarcely 3 ft., rather few-fld. above the middle; fls. paired, reddish green, nearly sessile, 1 1/4-1 1/2 in; ovary 1/2-l in., segm. 1/2in., tube 1/4in.: caps, prismatic-ovoid, small. Mex.(?). Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. 3, p. 303. Lyon Hort. 22, p. 363. With recurved long black prickles, and fls. 2 1/4 in. long, it is var. ctenophora, Trel. A beautiful form with milk-white median variegation is var. medio-picta, Trel. (A. micracantha picta, A. micracantha variegata, A. Ousselghemiana alba-picta, A. Ousselghemiana picta, and A. ilbicans variegata, Auct.), Wiesner Festschr., pl. 10. Hybrids are reported between this species and A. maculata and A. xalapensis. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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