Furcraea foetida
Furcraea foetida
Furcraea foetida is a species of the genus Furcraea in the subfamily of the agave ( Agavoideae ). The specific epithet comes from the Latin foetida, means smelly 'or' offensive ' and refers to the smell of crushed leaves.
Description
Furcraea foetida growing stemless or forms a short stem from. The wrong eiförimig - lanceolate leaves are more or less flat, wavy and rough on its underside. Your fresh bright green leaf blade is 150 to 250 inches long and 18 to 25 inches wide. The leaf margin is entire, and slightly wavy. At the base of a few triangular teeth are present, which are hooked.
The rather narrow inflorescence reaches a height of 8 to 10 meters. He has a long shaft, is branched, and it contributes little to abundant bulbils. The flowers are of a length of 40 to 50 millimeters. Your greenish white tepals are just as long as the ovary 20 to 25 millimeters in length.
Fruit and seeds are not described.
Systematics and distribution
Furcraea foetida is common on the Greater and Lesser Antilles, the island of Trinidad, and probably Central America. In northern South America it is mainly or exclusively cultivated in Africa and Asia, the species is cultivated widely.
The first description as Agave foetida by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum was published in 1753. Adrian Hardy Haworth introduced the type 1812 in the genus Furcraea. Furcraea foetida is classified in the genus in the section Furcraea.
Synonyms are Furcraea gigantea var medio- picta Trel. (without year), Agave foetida Aublet (1775, nom. illeg. ICBN article 53.1 ), Agave foetida Lam. (1784, nom. Illeg. ICBN article 53.1 ), Furcraea gigantea Vent. (1793), Agave gigantea ( Vent. ) D.Dietr. (1840, nom. Illeg. ICBN article 53.1 ), Funium piliferum Willem. (1796 ), Furcraea madagascariensis ( Haw. ) Salm- Dyck (1819 ), Agave commelynii Salm- Dyck (1834 ), Furcraea commelynii ( Salm- Dyck ) Kunth ( 1850) Furcraea gigantea var willemetiana M.Roem. (1847 ), Furcraea tuberosa Hassk. (1856, nom. Illeg. ICBN article 53.1 ), Furcraea tuberosa Hort. Belg. (1860, nom. Illeg. ICBN article 53.1 ), Furcraea barrillettii Jacobi ( 1869), Furcraea viridis Hemsl. (1885), Furcraea watsoniana Hort. Sander (1885), Furcraea gigantea var watsoniana ( Hort. Sander ) Drumm. (1907 ) and Furcraea variegata hort. ex Trel. (1915 ).