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[Meangreen94z]

Agave havardiana in Big Bend NP

Credit Skip Pudney

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Credit Brandon Williams

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[nsp88]

Ruth Bancroft Gardens shared on their IG that they run a Tumblr account. Clicked on it and scrolled a while. Saw some interesting (to me) stuff.

I cropped and repositioned the screenshots the first two to make them fit on one photo and be easier to understand than a series of screenshots.

I wonder if damaging the stalk to get a double could be repeatable.

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I never knew this bit of info:

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Beautiful blooms:

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Pretty neat top-down shots:

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[Gee.S]

^ That xylonacantha snap looks more like lophantha.

[nsp88]

Not an agave, but what kind of cactus is this?

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Cropped to spare everyone of the political commentary that was originally attached to this photo on FB...

[abborean]

^ That xylonacantha snap looks more like lophantha.

Have been told something like this is typical xylonocantha. I suspect what is typical is what one sees most frequently. Because of the variability of the species I'd feel to see if the leaves are rough on both sides. Lophantha is smooth.

[Gee.S]

^ That xylonacantha snap looks more like lophantha.

Have been told something like this is typical xylonocantha. I suspect what is typical is what one sees most frequently. Because of the variability of the species I'd feel to see if the leaves are rough on both sides. Lophantha is smooth.

A. lophantha can have asperous leaves tho most do not, it's extremely variable. Two features that most distinguish these taxa are rigid (xylonacantha) vs. flexible (lophantha) leaves and number of leaves (xylonacantha generally has no more than about 20). Most (more than half) xylonacantha snaps I see online are misidentified lophantha or difformis. The plant above appears to have in excess of 100 leaves, so definitely not xylonacantha.