Agave albicans
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Read about Agave albicans in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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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
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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