Agave salmiana v. ferox

[GreekDesert]

Agave salmiana v. ferox (Koch) Gentry (1982)
Salmianae

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[Jkwinston]

Barcelona: Jardins de Mossèn Costa i Llobera

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[GreekDesert]

thanks for sharing, that is the same plant with extra broad leaves.

[GreekDesert]

broad leaves and long terminal spines

[GreekDesert]

Agave salmiana v. ferox

[Gee.S]

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[GreekDesert]

Agave salmiana v. ferox

[Luc]

Jardin Méditerranéen de Roquebrun - France

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[Paul S]

This is Agave salmiana var ferox:

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[toditd]

Agave salmiana var. ferox - Boyce Thompson Arboretum 20190313

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[Tar Heel]

How slow growing is this plant? Bought her in Sept 2021 and not seeing a lot of positive change.

[Spination]

My own experience with a plant I got from KLC, who got his from Luc (France), is that the rhizome I got in 2018 was pretty slow growing.
Here is the shot from May, 2018

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And here it is 5 years later - still not very big.

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When I repotted it a year or so ago, I found a small rhizome which I put in it's own pot, which looks to have divided into two plants. Here is what that looks like now, also not very fast growing, but I think doing better (faster growing) than its mother plant. I'm wondering if because there are two together, presumably growing off the same rhizome, and if that factor has somehow caused a modest speeding up of the growth rate?

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Lastly, this line as mentioned comes from Europe, so the real deal to my understanding. I wanted to compare with the variegated line available out there. Mine
comes from Renny's collection.
Here is my mother plant which came as a small pup in 2019 shown below

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And here is the same plant now, 4 years later. It's rate of growth despite being variegated has been much faster than the European clone,

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This one is a minimally variegated pup from it.

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And finally this plant side by side with the pups from the European clone.

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[RCDS66]

Here is my mother plant which came as a small pup in 2019 shown below
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And here is the same plant now, 4 years later. It's rate of growth despite being variegated has been much faster than the European clone,
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Wow..... I don't think it can get far better than this. An outstanding specimen indeed

[ccm2000]

Minack Theatre, Cornwall, UK.

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