Agave tequilana
Agave tequilana at the site in Jalisco in Mexico
Tequilana Agave is a plant of the genus Agave ( Agave ).
Description
Agave tequilana has a short thick trunk and reaches a height of 30 to 50 centimeters. Your radially spreading rosette on the form sinker has a diameter of 1.2 to 1.8 meters. The most rigidly outstretched, pointed leaves are ascending to horizontal and tighten fibrous. They narrowing and thicken toward the base and are widest in the middle. The Glauk bluish- green to gray-green, sometimes cross banded leaf blade is 90 to 120 centimeters long and 8-12 centimeters wide. The leaf margin is straight to wavy or out sweeps. The light to dark brown edge teeth are in Spreitenmitte usually 3 to 6 millimeters, or 1 to 2 inches apart. The Enddorn is the upper side flattened or grooved open and 1 to 2 inches long.
The " Rispige " densely branched inflorescence is between 5 and 6 feet long. The multiple diffuse combined partial inflorescences consist of 20 to 25 flowers 68-75 mm in length with green tepals. The funnel-shaped corolla tube is 10 millimeters long. The ovary is 32-28 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Tequilana Agave grows in the Mexican states of Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Michoacán and Oaxaca. It will only be cultured to obtain the raw material for alcohol ( tequila).
The first description was published in 1902 by Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber. Synonyms are Agave palmeris Trelease, Agave pesmulae Trelease, Agave subtilis Trelease.
Agave tequiliana is a representative of the sword - blade group Rigidae. It is closely related with Agave vivipara, however, differences in shape, size, leaf and flower structure can be seen. Agave tequiliana is cultivated in the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson.