Agave striata
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Agave striata, Zucc. (Bonapartea juncea rigidifolia, B. rígida, B. rigidifalia, B. striata and B. tenuifolia, Hort.). Lvs. many, spreading, rhombically biconvex, 1/4 x 24-36 in., gray, with needle-shaped brown spine: infl. about 10 ft.; fls. greenish, 1 1/4 in.; ovary 1/2 in., protruding into the tube, segm. 1/2 in., tube 3/8 in. Cent. Mex. B.M. 4950. Gt. 29, p. 24. Jacobi, Versuch, p. 154. G.C. II. 8, p. 556. G.W. 10, p. 213. With lvs. conspicuously recurving it becomes var. recurva, Baker (A. recurva, Zucc.), G.C. II. 8, p. 556. Jacobi, Versuch, p. 158. A. paucifolia, Tod. (A. Roezlii, Hort.) differs chiefly in its fewer lvs. one-half wider, Hort. Panorm., pl. 19. The name striata has been applied, as a specific name, to variegated forms of A. americana.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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