Agave applanata Lem. ex Jacobi

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Description: It is a medium sized species usually solitary or making few offsets of very stiff pale blue leaves with contrasting dark spines.
Rosettes: Very close, 0,5-1(-1,8) m tall, 1-2 m in diameter (but often more in cultivation)
Leaves: Numerous, rigid, erect, linear-lanceolate, sharp, usually widest at or near the base silvery glaucous-grey, 7-10(-18) cm. wide, up to 40-60(-100 or more) cm. long, mature leaves much longer than earlier stages. Margin serrated lined with prominent, horny, dark brow to black spines, throughout (or lacking in the middle) of the lamina, 8 -15 mm long about 4 - 6 cm apart, nearly straight or frequently curved downwards, very strong, sharp and painful to the touch. Terminal Spine very strong, flat or broadly channelled about 3-7 cm long, dark reddish-brown becoming greyish with age, decurrent along the margin. The leaves bear the interesting impressed outlines of toothed leaves as they unfold from the plant’s central cone.
Inflorescence: Flower-stalk paniculate to the height of 5-6(-8) meters topped with clusters of up to three hundred bright yellow flowers.
Flowers: 55-80 mm long, ovary angularly cylindrical 5 - 38 mm, greenish, Tepals yellow, tube 15-22 mm long, lobes unequal, outer 15-22 mm. These are highly attractive to hummingbirds, a variety of insects, and even bats.
Booming season: It is a one-time spring bloomer. The plants are said to take from 15 to 25 years to arrive at blooming, and after once flowering the central plant dies reproducing itself by basal offsets, which will continue to grow.
Remarks: A. applanata is not readily separable from Agave parryiSN|22538]]SN|247]]i, which, in its young state at least, is not always distinguishable from the Agave palmeriSN|247]]SN|22538]].

Agave applanata (llifle.com)

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