Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
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Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
Hi everyone ! Since I found this agave at my local garden center I have been trying to identify it and I haven't found anything about it yet ! I was wondering if anyone could help me to identify it ? Thank you very much and have a nice day !
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
No idea what it is but the dark green and red teeth make it a attractive plant.
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
I have no idea either - but I'm looking at all those potted plants surrounding you, and realizing you're in QC, and know that's not exactly the tropics - is that in a greenhouse?
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
I feel like I saw this on one of the facebook groups, and you got some suggestions of A. palmeri? That seems as good a guess as any - darker green than typical due to your higher latitude.
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
^ Good guess, too spiny for decipiens, though. It looks like some manner of Rigidae or a Rigidae hybrid to me.
It does not look like an Arizona palmeri, but I've seen other palmeri forms from MX that are fairly distinct, so I suppose that's always possible. But really, same thing -- just too spiny.
It does not look like an Arizona palmeri, but I've seen other palmeri forms from MX that are fairly distinct, so I suppose that's always possible. But really, same thing -- just too spiny.
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"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
It looks a lot different than my other agaves for sure !Bananaguy wrote:No idea what it is but the dark green and red teeth make it a attractive plant.
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
Yes it is my local garden center ! They have a greenhouse opened all year round ! It's a nice place to visit when it's -20 celsius below freezingSpination wrote:I have no idea either - but I'm looking at all those potted plants surrounding you, and realizing you're in QC, and know that's not exactly the tropics - is that in a greenhouse?
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
Yes I posted those pictures on Planet agave earlier this week, I asked in the comment section if it could be an odd a. palmeri My first guess was a a. deserti, but someone pointed me out that they were usually lighter in color !Melt in the Sun wrote:I feel like I saw this on one of the facebook groups, and you got some suggestions of A. palmeri? That seems as good a guess as any - darker green than typical due to your higher latitude.
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
How about a somewhat etiolated version of Agave sp. 'Emerald Envy', a name coined by forum member KLC.
Here is mine, which is in full sun and does not get a lot of water, so it has gone all bandy and somewhat lighter green, but when I just got it from the big box store, it was that same green color. Terminals and teeth appear very similar.
Here is mine, which is in full sun and does not get a lot of water, so it has gone all bandy and somewhat lighter green, but when I just got it from the big box store, it was that same green color. Terminals and teeth appear very similar.
It is what it is!
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
Highly unlikely to be the same but one of my seed raised Agave gentryi is a twin of this - extremely narrow leaves and offsetting. Very unusual. Did see once near Parque Los Troncones in Tamaulipas what looked ostensibly like a gentryi/univittata (or lechuguilla) hybrid which is how I imagine this would grow up in terms of looks even if not genetics. I'll see if I can find the pic.
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
am with Paul. Looks more particularly to me like etiolated gentry "jaws"
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
Thanks a lot everyone for the information ! I will keep you posted has it grows ! The growing season here is somewhat short, I will be able to take it outside in a few months and repot it !
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
Note, Rigidae is no longer
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Section Rigidae revised to Section Viviperae for good reason.
Also, no idea about this one plant. I think it looks like a George or a Seamus, a fine plant …
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Section Rigidae revised to Section Viviperae for good reason.
Also, no idea about this one plant. I think it looks like a George or a Seamus, a fine plant …
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
We've had that paper posted up here for years (in the Gallery under A. vivipara), and agree wholeheartedly with the distinction between A. vivipara and A. angustifolia. I don't see where that paper places the likes of A. macroacantha and A. angustifolia in the Caribbean Agave group Viviperae. It seems to me that placement of these Mexican Agaves in Viviparae is actually contradictory to the position argued by Garcia-Mendoza in the paper you posted, that Caribbean and Mexican Agaves are in fact, distinct.
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"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"Some talk the talk, others walk the walk, but I stalk the stalk"
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
Section Rigidae was NOT subsumed into Section Viviparae, Garcia-Mendoza and Chiang resurrected Trelease's group Sisalanae to replace group Rigidae. In the Garcia-Mendoza and Chiang paper, Agave vivipara and Agave angustifolia were shown to be two distinct species in two completely separate groups.AGAVE_KILLER wrote:Note, Rigidae is no longer
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Section Rigidae revised to Section Viviperae for good reason.
Also, no idea about this one plant. I think it looks like a George or a Seamus, a fine plant …
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Re: Help needed to identify a weird narrow leaved agave !
^ Yup, that's how I read it.
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"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"American aloe plant," 1797, from Greek Agaue, proper name in mythology (mother of Pentheus), from agauos "noble," perhaps from agasthai "wonder at".
"Some talk the talk, others walk the walk, but I stalk the stalk"