Agave datylio

Datylio Agave is a plant of the genus Agave ( Agave ). An English common name is " Datilillo ".

Description

Agave datylio grows individually, forming rosettes. Individual rosette plant height reached 61 to 100 cm and a diameter of 100 to 150 cm. The Agave is sometimes extended rhizomes. Your variable, rigid, linear to lanceolate, rinnigen, green to yellow-colored leaves are 50-80 cm long and 3-4 cm wide. The leaf margins are toothed. The dark brown to gray Enddorn is 2.5 to 4 cm long.

The Rispige, narrow inflorescence is 3 to 5 m high. The green, to yellow colored flowers are 40-55 mm long and appear in the upper part of the inflorescence and extend to the tip of irregularly arranged, small branches. The trichterige flower tube is 5-10 mm long.

The elongated capsule dreikammerigen fruits are 35-40 mm long and 15-20 mm wide. The black seeds are up to 7 mm long and 6 mm wide.

The flowering period extends from September to December.

Systematics and distribution

Agave datylio is widely used in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur and is mainly used in sand and granite soils in the Cape before. It is associated with cacti and succulents.

The first description by Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber was published in 1902.

Agave datylio is a member of the group Rigidae. It belongs to the widespread sword leaves group. The type Agave aktites, which is on the opposite side of the Gulf of California found that is a member geographically closest to the group, which, however, in the form, leaf and flower structure differs. Agave datylio is cultivated at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.