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