Agave horrida

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Agave horrida in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Agave horrida, Jacobi. Lvs. oblanceolate-oblong, spreading, flat, rather thin, about 3 x 12 in., glossy green, neither striped nor lined, with flat-grooved short spine and large irregular prickles often with accessory cusps, joined by a heavy margin: infl. moderately slender; fls. yellowish or purplish green, 1 3/4 in.; ovary and segm. 3/4in. each., tube 1/4 in. Cent. Mex. B.M. 6511. F. 1870, p. 42. — Forms occur with larger revolute-margined lvs.: var. Maigretiana (A. Maigretiana, Jacobi. A. granulosa, Scheidw.), G.W. 2, p. 593. S.H. 4, p. 299. G.F. 2, p. 115; or with smaller prickles, var. micracantha, Baker, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 7, pl. 62, 63. The names A. DeSmetiana (A. DeSmetiana, Jacobi, being a form or ally of miradorensis), A. Ghiesbreghtii horrida, A. Morganii and A. Pilgrimii have been applied in gardens to forms of this or one of the two foregoing, not now recognized. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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