FREE: AGAVE BLUE CENTURY PLANT

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THE PLANT WILL BE 6-8" DIAMETER, AND SHIPPED BARE ROOT. ~~ NOTICE THE PUPS AT THE BASE OF THE MOTHER PLANTS!~~


The misnamed century plant typically lives only 10 to 30 years. It has a spreading rosette (about 4 m/13 ft wide) of gray-green leaves up to 2 m (6.6 ft) long, each with a spiny margin and a heavy spike at the tip that can pierce to the bone.

When it flowers, the spike with a cyme of big yellow flowers may reach up to 8 m (26 ft) in height.

Its common name likely derives from its semelparous nature of flowering only once at the end of its long life.

The plant dies after flowering, but produces suckers or adventitious shoots from the base, which continue its growth.

Agave americana is cultivated as an ornamental plant for the large dramatic form of mature plants - for modernist,drought tolerant, and desert style cactus gardens - among many planted settings.[4]

The plants can be evocative of 18th-19th century Spanish colonial and Mexican provincial eras in the Southwestern United States, California, and xeric Mexico.

INTERESTING: I didn't know this!
Each agave plant will produce several pounds of edible flowers during its final season. The stalks, which are ready during the summer, before the blossom, weigh several pounds each. Roasted, they are sweet and can be chewed to extract the aguamiel, like sugarcane. When dried out, the stalks can be used to make didgeridoos. The leaves may be collected in winter and spring, when the plants are rich in sap, for eating. The leaves of several species also yield fiber: for instance, Agave rigida var. sisalana, sisal hemp, Agave decipiens, false sisal hemp. Agave americana is the source of pita fiber, and is used as a fiber plant in Mexico, the West Indies and southern Europe