Agave ovatifolia G.D.Starr & Villarreal

 

Agave ovatifolia, the whale’s tongue agave, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is native to the Nuevo Leon region of the Chihuahuan Desert in northern Mexico.

 

Description

Agave ovatifolia grows solitarily with a growth height of 60 to 90 cm and is 80 to 120 cm wide. The bluish to grey, rigid, strong, wide elliptical to oval-shaped leaves are 35 to 4 cm long, 20 to 24 cm wide. The leaf edges are irregularly toothed. The dark grey to black variable tip to jad-dirthorn is 2 to 3 cm long.

The cracked, straight to somewhat curved inflorescence becomes 3.5 to 4 m high. The green to yellow, numerous flowers appear in the middle to the upper half of the inflorescence at the end of the loosely arranged, variable branches and are 65 to 75 mm long. The flower tube is 15 to 20 mm long.

The elongated three-chamber capsule fruits are 50 to 60 mm long and 15 to 20 mm wide. The shiny, black moon-shaped seeds are 5 to 6 mm long and 3 to 4 mm wide.

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