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The leaves are blue green and the thorns are red. The whole plant may reach 100 centimeters tall and wide. [5] Occasionally, mature plants produce a spectacular flower head up to 6m tall, opening red and turning yellow. [6] This signals the death of the flowering rosette. However, offsets may form and continue growing. As it can tolerate ...
An Agave ovatifolia, also known as a frosty blue succulent, is about to unfurl its death bloom — 10 years after it was planted below the garden's glass dome. Education coordinator Paige Shafer ...
Agave havardiana is an acaulescent species forming rosettes low to the ground, sometimes creating suckers but not forming large colonies like some other species. Leaves are up to 70 cm (28 inches) long, with teeth along the margins and at the tip. Flowering stalks can be up to 7 m (23 feet) tall, with yellow to yellow-green flowers.
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.
Schilling, a local horticulturalist who runs a landscaping company and owns a garden shop called Mojave Bloom Nursery, saved this African sumac decades ago after an unusually frosty winter caused ...
Agave utahensis is a rosette-shaped agave having blue-green sharp-spiked leaves. The raceme inflorescence is very tall, reaching a maximum of 4 m (12 ft). It is generally yellow or yellow-green with bulbous yellow flowers. The fruits are capsules 1 to 3 centimeters long and containing black seed.
While rare, Agave demeesteriana can produce a tall, dramatic flower stalk reaching up to 15–20 feet. This stalk bears numerous yellow flowers, offering a spectacular visual display before the plant dies back.
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]