Agave Species, King Ferdinand Agave, Century Plant, Maguey

Tolerates sun in central Arizona and shows no signs of frost damage down to at least 25F. Supplemental water will allow it to grow faster...Read More with fatter, more robust leaves. Offsets just enough that you will never run out of the plant after it dies after blooming. Blooms have been tall in the stalk but short on flowers.

IN addition to these these two plants looking quite distinct, there does not appear to be any 'transition' forms in nature, which one wou...Read Moreld expect to see if these two were really the same species. The plants either look distinctly like this, or like a form of agave victoriae-reginae, and nothing in between.

This agave looks a bit like Agave victoriae-reginae only it has larger, thicker and less leaves in its crown. The larger and more separa...Read Moreted leaves show even more the white pattern left by the leaves that were once on top during development... a very show plant. Slow to sucker, but it seems to. Don't know much else about it, other than it is often used in crosses with other agaves.

Recently some authors (lumpers) have included this into Agave victoriae-reginae, but a well respected collector and grower of Agaves is pretty firm about these being two completely separate species as they are not even remotely close to each other in Mexico, and their enviroment varies quite a bit- this one growing on hills and flat, rocky areas, while A victoriae tends to grow on very steep hillsides and cliffs. Also this plant grows to nearly twice the size of the other.