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Agave vilmoriniana has one of the highest concentrations of the sapogenin smilagenin; in parts of México, the leaves are cut and dried, and the fibers are beaten to make them into a brush with built-in soap. The "octopus agave" is cultivated as an ornamental plant for planting in arid gardens and containers.
The agave root system, consisting of a network of shallow rhizomes, allows the agave to efficiently capture moisture from rain, condensation, and dew. In addition to growing from seeds, most agaves produce 'pups' – young plants from runners. Agave vilmoriniana (the octopus agave) produces hundreds of pups on its bloom stalk. Agave leaves ...
Murphey's century plant (Agave murpheyi) narrowleaf agave (Agave angustifolia) Navajo yucca (Yucca baileyi) Nelson's beargrass (Nolina nelsonii) night-flowering hesperaloe (Hesperaloe nocturna) ocahui (Agave ocahui) octopus agave (Agave vilmoriniana) Palmer's century plant (Agave palmeri) Palmer's craglily (Echeandia palmeri) Palmer's Bajalily ...
A damaged agave plant at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix on Aug. 9, 2023. ...
Agave neglecta Small – wild century plant = Agave weberi; Agave neocernua Thiede - Jalisco; Agave neonelsonii Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Durango) Agave neopringlei Thiede & Eggli – Mexico; Agave nickelsiae Rol.-Goss. - Coahuila; Agave nizandensis Cutak – Dwarf Octopus Agave - Oaxaca; Agave nuusaviorum García-Mend. - Oaxaca
Agavoideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales.It has previously been treated as a separate family, Agavaceae. [1] The group includes many well-known desert and dry-zone types, such as the agaves and yuccas (including the Joshua tree).
Agave sanpedroensis is a perennial rosette-forming plant with succulent leaves, 50–70 cm tall and wide and producing abundant offsets.The leaves are stiffly upright, gray to grayish green, with conspicuous banding and white bud-imprinting, and undulate margins.
Tillandsia caput-medusae is a species of flowering plant in the bromeliad family, Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae. Common names include octopus plant and medusa's head. An epiphyte native to Central America and Mexico, T. caput-medusae is a commonly cultivated bromeliad species. The thick, channeled, tapering and twisting leaves are up ...