Entry, Parking Strip, Raised Planter, Walkways, With Rocks
Special Uses
Container, Mass Planting, Naturalizing, Small Spaces
Attracts Wildlife
n/a
Information by: Kathleen Moore Photographer: Mountain States Nursery
Description
Notes
Agave with open rosette form grows quickly to 3' x 3'. Narrow, dark green leaves are often have white hairs on the margin. The tips are sharp. Accepts full sun or partial shade. After about ten year or so, in the winter it will send up a spectacular 15-18' flower spike with yellow flowers. Like all agaves it will die after flowering. Rarely forms no offsets so it wiill need to be replaced. Native to west central Mexico.
Frost tolerant to 25 F.
Also try Agave ocahui and Agave victoriae-reginae.