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Agave brittoniana

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Agave brittoniana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Agavoideae
Genus: Agave
Species:
A. brittoniana
Binomial name
Agave brittoniana

Agave brittoniana is a species of Agave native to Cuba. It was first described in 1913 in the Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. by Trel[1]

Description of the plant

This is a light green agave. This agave is very rare outside of Cuba, therefore not much is known about their flowers. Its terminal spine, which is the spine on the end of leaves on all agaves, looks like polished Ebony which fades out to Moghamy wood look. Like many carribean agaves, this plant is uniformly green execpt for the spination. These tend to get big, like Agave americansis. Due to its rarity in cultivation, frost tenderness is not well known. [2]

Distribution

This plant is very common in Cuba and is widespread there, but is very rare in cultivation.

References

  1. ^ "Agave brittoniana Trel. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  2. ^ "Agave brittoniana Trel | ISI 2015". media.huntington.org. Retrieved 2024-07-02.