Agave fourcroydes
Agave fourcroydes
Fourcroydes Agave is a plant of the genus Agave ( Agave ). An English common name is " henequen Agave ".
Description
Agave fourcroydes grows with thick stems and forms rosettes with streamers. The rigid, straight leaves are linear and rinnig. They are rounded at the base and taper to a point. The sheets are 120 to 180 inches long and 8 to 12 centimeters wide. On the straight edge of the sheet are located at regular intervals dark brown, 3-6 mm long, slender edge teeth. The rich, dark brown, conical Enddorn is described briefly and openly grooved and usually 2 to 3 inches long.
The 5 to 6 meters high inflorescence is a panicle and bears in the upper half 10 to 18 partial inflorescences and bulbils. The individual flowers are 6-7 inches long. Your tepals are greenish yellow. They have almost the same tip 16 to 18 millimeters in length. The urn-shaped corolla tube is 12 to 16 millimeters long.
Seeds are never formed.
Systematics and distribution
Agave fourcroydes is only known cultivated and is distributed mainly in eastern Mexico. .
The first description by Charles Lemaire was published in 1864. Synonyms are Agave ixtlioides Lemaire ex Jacobi. Agave sullivanii Trelease.
Use
From the leaves of Agave fourcroydes soft spinnable fibers are obtained which are termed " henequen ". The individual cells are pronounced with an average of 2.88 mm length for a Agavenfaser long and 22.6 microns thick. Are processed therefore fiber bundles: Nevertheless, they can not be spinning (25 mm minimum necessary length).