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Sunburned leaves of a mock orange shrub on Aug. 23. Brown patches show where the tissue was damaged. ... leaving plants and trees less time to recover and bounce back. ... A damaged agave plant at ...
Agave ovatifolia grows solitarily with a growth height of 60 to 90 cm and is 80 to 120 cm wide. The bluish to grey, rigid, strong, wide elliptical to oval-shaped leaves are 35 to 4 cm long, 20 to 24 cm wide. The leaf edges are irregularly toothed. The dark grey to black variable tip to jad-dirthorn is 2 to 3 cm long.
In the variegated forms, the leaf has a white or yellow marginal or central stripe. As the leaves unfold from the center of the rosette, the impression of the marginal spines is conspicuous on the still erect younger leaves. The plant is reported being hardy to −9.5 to −6.5 °C or Zone 8b 15-20f.
Agavoideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales.It has previously been treated as a separate family, Agavaceae. [1] The group includes many well-known desert and dry-zone types, such as the agaves and yuccas (including the Joshua tree).
Ingestion of a single leaf of the plant can be fatal to an adult. [61] Casual contact with the leaves can cause skin pustules. The berries pose the greatest danger to children because they look attractive and have a somewhat sweet taste. [66] The consumption of two to five berries by children and ten to twenty berries by adults can be lethal.
The numerous, broad, succulent, tapering leaves are slightly less rigid than the leaves of most Agave species; they are a bright glaucous gray to light yellowish-green and stingless. [6] The inflorescence is a dense raceme 2.5 to 3 meters (8.2 to 9.8 ft) high (usually curved), with greenish-yellow flowers, developing after many years. [7]
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The plant blooms once it reaches its peak ripening stage, between 7 and 15 years of age. [3] The enormous stem sprouts from its center, which can reach up to 10 m. The maguey only blooms once in its entire life. After that, it dies. [2] The maguey flowers are greenish-yellow, elongated in appearance (~ 10 cm).