Agave angustifolia

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Habit   cacti-succulent

Height: 10 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10. to 17 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 17.
Width: 7 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 7. to 8 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Lifespan: perennial
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
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Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 9 to 11
Flower features: orange, yellow
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Scientific Names



Read about Agave angustifolia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

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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