Agave fourcroydes
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Read about Agave fourcroydes in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Agave fourcroydes, Lem. (A. ixtli elongata, Auct. A. ixtlioides, Lem. (A. longifolia, Auct. A. rigida, A. rigida elongata and A. rigida longifolia of most writers). Trunk 3-6 ft.: lvs. 3-4 x 60-90 in., gray, with round-grooved spine and slender curved prickles: infl. ample; fls. 2 1/4-2 1/2 in.; ovary 1-1 1/4 in. segm. and tube 1 3/4 in. each: caps. obovoid, slightly stipitate and beaked. Yucatan. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 49, pl. 32. Wiesner Festschr., 349. Mem. Nat. Acad. 11, pl. 110-112.-The sacci, gray agave or henequen, largely grown for fiber in Yucatan. A form with greenish white median variegation is var. medio-picta, Trel.,-Wiesner Festschr., pl. 12. The shorter-lvd. but similar chelem of the Yucatan coast is A. ixtli, sometimes called A. silvestris or A. prolifera, and a related plant has been called A. minima. A large-lvd. poorer form of A. fourcroydes is known as chucumci, and a shorter-lvd. form of this as babci. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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