Agave sobria

[Gee.S]

Agave sobria ssp. sobria Brandegee (1889)
Deserticolae

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[Gee.S]

Agave sobria

A. sobria ssp. sobria

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[Gee.S]

Agave sobria

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[Gee.S]

These are pups I acquired as A. sobria ssp. sobria. As you can see, the third (tagged A. sobria 'Santa Rosalía') is quite distinct from the first two.

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[GreekDesert]

Agave sobria var. sobria

[Gee.S]

A. sobria

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[KLC]

[Meangreen94z]

Balandra Beach, La Paz, Baja California . Photographer Roman Gilberto Sanchez

[Azuleja]

Seedlings

[Gee.S]

Nice! I've still got gobs of A. sobria 'Turtle Teeth' seed.

[mcvansoest]

A plant I got from KLC as Agave sobria 'Santa Rosalia':

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Is turning into a really nice plant.

[mcvansoest]

And two more, both also from KLC I believe:

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And a photo with three sobrias (one the 'pseudogigantensis'):

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[mcvansoest]

Sobrias in the process of flowering:
#1

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#2

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Have been good plants for me. Hoping for some seed as they have been stingy offsetters... I know there is one pup on plant #1.

[Gee.S]

Awww, too bad. I have some terrific sobria seed here if you don't get any.

[mcvansoest]

Have two left.

The 'Pseudogigantensis' from Greg and 'Santa Rosalia' from KLC... The former is behaving much like plant #1 in the post above - not surprising given that it is planted next to it with just sobria ssp. frailensis next to it, while the SR is in my back yard and doing a different but similar to #2 kind of development and looking really good. Will get a pick and post at some point. Also no pups on those...

Given how bullet proof these have been I will definitely hit you up for some seed if I get none from my flowering plants...

[mcvansoest]

As usual speedy as hell...

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Right now the two inflorescences have a distinctly different appearance.. while be interesting to see if that keeps going.

[nsp88]

As usual speedy as hell...
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Right now the two inflorescences have a distinctly different appearance.. while be interesting to see if that keeps going.

Love your garden.
That banding on the front one is spectacular!

[mcvansoest]

Thank you. It will be sorely missed...

[Meangreen94z]

Thank you. It will be sorely missed...

The various forms of Sobria seem to have slowly disappeared from the market the last few years, atleast online. KLC and Greg Starr need to flood the market again.

[mcvansoest]

Here is the nicest of the two that I have remaining for now...

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It has its own character though it definitely leans towards the banded specimen in the front yard.

[mcvansoest]

Update...
They are appear to be developing somewhat distinctly different.

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The foreground is what I got many years ago from KLC as Agave sobria, but what had been sold to him as seeds of Agave gigantensis. It definitely is not gigantensis, no doubt about that, but compared to the plant in the back which I got as straight up no doubt about it Agave sobria the inflorescence appears to be developing somewhat differently.

Here is the definite sobria in more detail:

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And here is a closer up shot of the other one:

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Now their is development difference of about 1-2 weeks between the two inflorescences, but to me there is a distinct difference in number of flowers and how the flowers are held on the panicle between the two Agaves that I do not think is due solely due to that lag in development, I guess we will see in a few weeks.

[Gee.S]

Similar spacing between branches, similar branch length, similar branch angles, similar inflorescence timing, similar inflorescence height. A lot of sobrias do that 90° inflorescence angle thing too, so there is quite a bit of natural variability in their development, a lot more than I see here.