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2. Agave gigantensis - Wikipedia

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   Agave gigantensis is a large, flowering agave plant found in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Its name is derived from the area of origin, not its large size. The plant is distinguishable by its red and purple leaves during flowering season. It is able to survive in harsh, rocky conditions and prefers dry and warm environments.

3. Agave palmeri - Wikipedia

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   Agave palmeri is the largest Agave species growing in the United States. It produces a basal leaf rosette of fleshy, upright green leaves of up to 120 centimetres (4 feet) in length, with jagged edges and ending in sharp, thick spines of 3–6 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches) long. The buds are purplish.

4. Can Central California become an agave hub? Take a peek ... - AOL

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   Woolf was thinking about the agave plant: The large, fleshy, drought-resistant succulent is used to make tequila and mezcal in Mexico, where the plant is called maguey. He started with a 2.5-acre ...

5. Agave - Wikipedia

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   Most Agave species grow very slowly. [5] Some Agave species are known by the common name "century plant". [7] Maguey is a Spanish word that refers to all of the large-leafed plants in the Asparagaceae family, [citation needed] including agaves and yuccas. Maguey flowers are eaten in many indigenous culinary traditions of Mesoamerica.

6. Californians bet farming agave for spirits holds key to ...

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   Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked. A decade later, his property is now dotted ...

7. Agave atrovirens - Wikipedia

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   Agave atrovirens, called maguey verde grande is a type of century plant (family Agavaceae) native to Oaxaca, Puebla and Veracruz states in Mexico. It is the largest of all the Agaves (approached only by Agave missionum), occasionally reaching a weight of two long tons (2 metric tonnes). Each succulent leaf can be up to 14 feet 9 inches (4.50 ...