Furcraea tuberosa
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Read about Furcraea tuberosa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Furcraea tuberosa, Ait. (F. interrupta, F. spinosa, Agave spinosa, A. campanulata, A. tuberosa, Yucca superba, Auct.). Nearly trunkless: lvs. broadly lanceolate, nearly flat, 8x50-70 in.; teeth usually 1/5 in. long and 2/3 – 1 1/3 in. apart, sometimes absent toward the end or below: infl. 25 ft.: caps, unknown: freely bulbiferous, the bulbels elongated. Cuba and Haiti and, in somewhat differing forms, in Porto Rico and through the Lesser Antilles. Rep. Mo. Bot. Card. 18:1-4. R.H. 1877, p. 233. Cycle. Amer. Agric., II. p. 290. Gt. 1852:3. Yearbook Dept. Agric. 1904:31. Ann. Mus. Firenze. 1:4. Commelin, Hort. Amts. 2:19. —Commonly called silk-grass, sometimes maguey or cocuiza: apparently the Haitian cabuya of early writers. With the teeth twinned, as they are sometimes in F. selloa and characteristically in F. humboldtiana, it is Var. geminispina (F. geminispina, Ait.) CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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