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Agave attenuata f. variegata hort.

Family: AGAVACEAE

Accepted Scientific Name: Agave attenuata Salm-Dyck
Hort. Dyck. (1834) 303.

Agave attenuata f. variegata Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
(Variegated Fox Tail Agave) This beautiful form is one of the much sought after and highly prized agave by collectors, but it is expensive. It is very hard to propagate, and it almost never have pups, the little offsets that grow at the base of the plant.

Synonyms:

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave attenuata Salm-Dyck
Hort. Dyck. (1834) 303.
Synonymy: 18 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave attenuata subs. dentata B.Ullrich
Haseltonia 12: 27. 2007 [16 Jan 2007] nom. inval.

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave attenuata var. serrulata A.Terracc. in A.Terracc.
Prim. Contr. Monogr. Agave 21, t. IV. 1885
Synonymy: 2
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Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Variegated Fox Tail Agave, Variegated Lion's Tail, Variegated Swan's Neck, Variegated Elephant’s trunk, Variegated Spineless Century Plant, Variegated Gooseneck Succulent, Variegated Soft Leaved Agave

Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Agave attenuata group

  • Agave attenuata Salm-Dyck: Produces smooth curving trunks with wide, powdery green, soft, pliable, harmless leaves.
  • Agave attenuata f. variegata hort.: (a.k.a. 'mediopicta aurea') the leaves are marked with contrasting creamy yellow stripes that varies considerably from plant to plant, some are almost completely green with only few thin cream stripes while - on the other extreme - we can found almost completely white ones.

27183 matteo Matteo Faggion
The cv. mediopicta can be distinguished by the green leaf borders and variegation in the centre. Photo by: Matteo Faggion
230 cactus-art Cactus Art
This cultivars is distinguishes for having extremely variable degrees of variegation. Photo by: Cactus Art

232 cactus-art Cactus Art
Agave attenuata f. variegata Photo by: Cactus Art
231 cactus-art Cactus Art
This is the yellow variegated form of Agave attenuata. Photo by: Cactus Art

27182 matteo Matteo Faggion
Agave attenuata 'mediopicta' (It can be distinguished by the green leaf borders and variegation in the centre) Photo by: Matteo Faggion
22344 flavio Flavio Agrosi
The wide pale green pliable leaves have yellow stripes that are different from leaf to leaf. Photo by: Flavio Agrosi


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