Agave oteroi

After 35 years, the plants known as Agave FO-076 have finally received a proper name, Agave oteroi, named for Felipe Otero, who originally collected seed of this plant with the wicked teeth from the Sierra Mixteca in 1984. For nearly 20 years, these plants were not very popular and difficult to sell. Then something changed in the early 2000’s collectors couldn’t get their hands on them fast enough and somebody had the misfortune of calling it Agave titanota, which is really quite a different plant. Aside from a handful of people, nobody in the horticulture industry has actually visited the original locality for Agave titanota, therefore rendering them unqualified to make a rational decision on whether the two are the same species or different species. It is unfortunate that the name stuck as it is now very difficult to correct the misapplication of the name.

Agave oteroi - a new species from Puebla/Oaxaca - Starr Nursery Starr Nursery (starr-nursery.com)

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