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Agave striata f. minima

Family: AGAVACEAE

Agave striata f. minima Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
(Dwarf Needle Agave) It is a dwarf plant that looks quite different from the wider leafed agaves with its long, very narrow, gray green leaves that can reach only 10-15 cm tall. The leaves are quite stiff and delightfully painful.

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave striata f. minima

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave striata Zucc.
Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 16(2): 678. 1833
Synonymy: 6 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave striata var. californica (Jacobi) A.Terracc. in A.Terracc.
Prim. Contr. Monogr. Agave 16. 1885
Synonymy: 2
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Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Dwarf Needle Agave
SPANISH (Español): Espadin

Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Agave striata complex-group

  • Agave striata Zucc.: Dense, suckering rosette succulent with unique spiny pencil-like foliage, with nice spherical growth that branch profusely from the base. It very similar to Agave stricta, and can be easily confused with a Yucca.
  • Agave striata var. californica (Jacobi) A.Terracc. in A.Terracc.
  • Agave striata f. minima: Dwarf plant that only reach a maximum size of 15-25 cm.
  • Agave stricta (Needle Leaf Agave)Agave stricta Salm-Dyck: Forms large individual rosettes, with hundreds of thin leaves, 30 to 100 cm in height and width. This species has the tightest spherical shape of any agave and looks like a very nasty porcupine. .
  • Agave stricta f. nana Minas Asbestos: It is a very small selection that forms a compact spherical rosette, with many stiff, very narrow, glaucous-blue linear leaves. Will form offshoots to create a colony of rosettes.
  • Agave stricta f. rubra hort.: (a.k.a. Red form) it has thin red longitudinal lines on the leaves. The red colouratin enhances under stress condition (drought, strong sun and cold expecially in winter)

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