AGAVE X LEOPOLDII

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The genus Agave has more than 200 species of desert-loving perennials with dramatic, structurally interesting foliage. They are all from the warmer regions of the New World, mostly Mexico and Central and South America. They are beautiful ornamentals and important plants for food and utility.

 

First described by G. Nicholson in 1900 and published in Garden Chronicles in 1912, it was later described as a garden hybrid between Agave filifera and Agave schidigera (now

A. filifera ssp. schidigera) by Alwin Berger in his 1915 “Die Agaven”.

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A healthy specimen in a small pot.

Agave X leopoldii

Family Agavaceae

Vendor's Display, Harry P. Leu Botanical Garden, Orlando, Florida, USA.

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