Century Plant, Maguey, American Aloe
These mostly large-sized perennials grow in a rosette of succulent, spiny, sharply pointed leaves, from which tequila is made. Rope, food, soap and other products are also made from the fibers and pulp.
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This showy plant has an exotic air with its long recurved leaves with a central, longitudinal, yellow or white stripe. The basic leaf colour is either grey-blue or greenish.
Wild Century Plant
Scientific Name: Agave neglecta Small
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All Century Plants offered on this page are native of southwestern USA and northern Mexico and reputedly winter hardy in Central Europe.
Dwarf Century Plant
Agave species
The thick blue-green succulent leaves are held in a tight rosette. This is a very dwarf species spreading by suckers and eventually creating a dense mass of these miniature century plants.
Agave americana - Century Plant
Agavaceae
Agave americana, or Century Plant, is a unique succulent plant native to Mexico. These are large plants with loose, open, trunkless rosettes.
Century Plant
Description
Agave americana is a monocarpic (dies after blooming) succulent that forms a basal rosette of thick spiny grey-green leaves, often 6' long. The flower stalk is branched and can reach 20'-40' tall with yellow green flowers.
( Agenteovariegata Century Plant )
Very fleshy succulent forms a rosette of spiky leaves, variegated with silvery white coloring. Bears a tall flower spike from the center. Flowers are yellow to green, bell-shaped with a violet tinge.
Agave americana (American aloe, Century plant)
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This century plant is an impressive xeric species from western New Mexico and eastern Arizona. It is one of the most cold hardy of the Agave family. Forming large, heavily, toothed rosettes, the sword-like leaves are blue-green.
Century Plant (Agave spp). Native to tropical America, introduced to Bermuda from Mexico. Popular throughout Bermuda in gardens, on the roadside and in hotel properties. Many types grow here, including Agave americana, A. attenuata and A.
Century plant (Agave americana), a tough succulent with thick, linear, wickedly spined leaves forming a huge rosette, is usually blue-green, but most ornamental varieties have yellow or cream stripes as well.
The century plant (Agave americana) is a drought-tolerant succulent suitable for growing in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 and warmer. It is native to North America and is used…
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Century plants are often used for fencing in Mexico and Central America. A dense hedge of these spiny succulents is impermeable to cattle and people.
Agave americana (Century plant, Family: Agavaceae / Amaryllidaceae)
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Rusby, Henry Hurd, 1855-1940: Physician, 20th century plant collector, explorer, teacher. Collected over 10,000 plants in the Southwest and South America.
Maguey is the Mexican name for various species (chiefly A. americana) called American aloe, or century plant, that contain the sugar agavose, ...
Burbank, the famous turn of the century plant breeder who gave us the russet potato we eat with our steaks, was a visionary plant breeder who saw potential where others simply saw confusion.
The most popular Agave is the Century Plant, so-called because of the mistaken belief that it flowers only once every 100 years.
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To avoid category-edit wars, since presumably century plant is not wanted here even though it has impressive flowers, I suggest that this document itself as "plants noted/grown/valued for their flowers" or some such. Stan 20:40, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC) ...
The variety is named for the Nineteenth Century plant breeder Georg Arends (1862-1952) of Ronsdorf, Germany, best remembered for his Astilbe introductions. Arends introduced this standard garden monkshood late in his long career, in 1945.
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