Agave guiengola

Guiengola Agave

Guingola Agave is a plant of the genus Agave ( Agave ). An English common name is " Creme Brulee Agave ".

Description

Agave guiengola is monokarpisch grows solitary and forms streamers with a diameter of 30 to 40 cm. The thick, wide, white, dyed green to bluish, oval to lanceolate, rinnigen, warty dense, irregularly arranged leaves are up to 57 cm long and 13 to 15 cm wide. The cream-colored leaf margins are variable serrated dark brown. The needle-like gray to brown Enddorn is 1.5 to 4 cm long.

The eared, slender inflorescence is 2 to 3 m high. The light yellow to white colored flowers are 33-35 mm long and appear in clusters near the base.

The elongate fruits are brown dreikammerigen capsule 22 to 24 mm long.

The flowering period extends from February to March.

Systematics and distribution

Agave guiengola growing endemic in Mexico in the state of Oaxaca on limestone slopes in 100 to 1000 m altitude. It is associated with cacti and succulents.

The first description by Howard Scott Gentry was published in 1960.

Agave guiengola is a representative of the section Choritepalae whose members possess tube -less flowers. However, differences with the two other members of the section, the geographically isolated Agave Agave bracteosa and ellemeetiana in form and structure and leaves the deviating Samenmorpohologie are recognizable. Agave guiengola grows only on the type locality, Cerro Guiengola near Tehuantepec in Oaxaca. Individuals are cultured in the Huntington Botanic Garden in San Marino, California.

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