Agave_datylio

<i>Agave datylio</i>

Agave datylio

Species of flowering plant

Agave datylio is a member of the Agavoideae subfamily and a succulent plant. It is native to Baja California Sur.[2][3]

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Description

Agave datylio grows in a leaf rosette of about 3.3 feet (1.0 m) diameter. It has narrow, lanceolate leaves up to 2–2.6 ft (0.61–0.79 m) long, are grooved on top and with 1.6-inch (41 mm) spines at the tip, with 0.1–0.2-inch (2.5–5.1 mm) teeth spaced along the edges. The leaves are initially green when young, becoming yellow to a golden brown with age. The 1.6–2.2-inch (41–56 mm) flowers are greenish yellow, up to 55 mm (2.2 inches) long.[4]

Cultivation

Easy to garden, A. datylio prefers gentle slopes and open sunlight and propagates vegetatively, but can be propagated by seed.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    León de la Luz, J.L. (2019). "Agave datylio". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T114979408A116353723. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T114979408A116353723.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. [2]
    Weber, Frederic Albert Constantin. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 8(3): 224. 1902.
  3. [3]
    Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert, 2 vols. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  4. [4]
    Gentry, H. S. 1982. Agaves of Continental North America i–xiv, 1–670. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
  5. [5]
    The Complete Encyclopedia of Succulents by Zdenek Jezek and Libor Kunte


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