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Agave americana f. aureo-marginata hort.

Family: AGAVACEAE

Accepted Scientific Name: Agave americana L.
Sp. Pl. 1: 323. 1753 [1 May 1753] L.

Agave americana f. aureo-marginata Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
Photo taken at Cervia, Emilia Romagna, Italy.

Synonyms:

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave americana L.
Sp. Pl. 1: 323. 1753 [1 May 1753]
Synonymy: 41 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave americana var. expansa (Jacobi) Gentry
Agave Fam. Sonora 80. 1972 USDA Agric. Handb. no. 399
Synonymy: 3 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave americana f. medio-picta alba

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave americana var. oaxacensis Gentry
Agaves Cont. N. Amer. 285 (1982).

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave americana subs. protamericana Gentry
Agaves Cont. N. Amer. 287 (1982).

Cultivars (1):
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Common Names include:
ARABIC ( لعربية ): أغاف أمريكي
FINNISH (Suomi): Kulta-agaave
JAPANESE (日本語): (狭義の)リュウゼツラン
PERSIAN (فارسی): آگاوه امریکانا

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

  • Agave americana (Century Plant)Agave americana L.: Solitary or slowly clumping grey-blue rosette up to 4 m wide up to 150-200 cm tall. The leaves are often refexed above the middle. Cultivated worldwide with several different variety.
  • Agave americana f. aureo-marginata hort.: Variegated cultivar with yellow stripes along the margins of each leaf.
  • Agave americana var. expansa (Jacobi) Gentry: has a short trunk up to 60 cm tall with grey-glaucous cross zoned leaves.
  • Agave americana  'Mediopicta Alba'Agave americana f. medio-picta alba: Variegated cultivar with a broad white band down the centre of each leaf.
  • Agave americana var. oaxacensis Gentry: Has very large glaucous-white leaves with nearly straight margins. Leaves never reflexed. Cultivated form mainly in Oaxaca Valley.
  • Agave americana var. picta (Salm-Dyck) A.Terracc.: The name "picta" has been variously used to indicate a number of varieties, segregated largely on the basis of the yellow or whitish striations. This variegated forms are inconstant in their colour patterns.
  • Agave americana subs. protamericana Gentry: Regarded as the wild progenitor of the cultivated Agave americana differs in its greater variability in form, spination and colour of the leaves which generally are shorter, compact and wider.
  • Agave americana subs. protamericana cv. Blue Steel: has beautiful steel-blue, tight, upright, leaves with wider blade than some clones.
  • Agave americana var. striata Trel. in L.H.Bailey: Variegated cultivar with multiple yellow to white stripes along the leaves.
  • Agave cv. Cornelius: small monstrous and strongly variegated form with gorgeous wide creamy-yellow margins on blue-green undulating spidery foliage.

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Flowering habit at Kula, Maui, Hawaii, USA. August 05, 2003. Photo by: Forest Starr & Kim Starr
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Agave americana f. aureo-marginata Photo by: Matteo Faggion

22363 star Forest Starr & Kim Starr
Habit at Makawao, Maui, Hawaii, USA. December 31, 2006. Photo by: Forest Starr & Kim Starr
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Agave americana f. aureo-marginata Photo by: Cactus Art

22361 star Forest Starr & Kim Starr
Flower buds at Olinda, Maui, Hawaii, USA. December 19, 2010. Photo by: Forest Starr & Kim Starr
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Flowers at Olinda, Maui, Hawaii, USA. December 19, 2010. Photo by: Forest Starr & Kim Starr

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Photo taken at Cervia, Adriatic coast of Emilia Romagna, Italy. Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
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Agave americana f. aureo-marginata Photo by: Cactus Art

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