🌿 Morphology:  Medium-sized, compact, and highly prolific rosette agave that can form large colonies through offsets. Its leaves are rigid, narrow, and lanceolate, bright green, often with a lighter central band and yellow edges. They feature small marginal teeth and a characteristic dark terminal spine. Individual rosettes are monocarpic and die after flowering.

🌍 Origin and habitat: Family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. Its native range extends from Texas (USA) to northeastern and north-central Mexico, including Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz. It grows in dry scrublands, semiarid plains, rocky outcrops, and limestone soils, from areas near sea level to mountainous regions.

🌡️ Temperature: Approximately USDA 8b. It is one of the agaves with good cold resistance and can withstand approximately −9 °C in dry conditions. For cultivation in Spain, we recommend keeping it above −7 °C, preventing the roots from remaining wet during frost episodes.

☀️ Light: During active growth, we recommend an approximate DLI of 20–30 mol·m⁻²·day⁻¹ of PAR. It prefers intense light and develops a compact rosette better with abundant light, although it can tolerate bright partial shade in very warm climates.

💧 Watering and dormancy: Winter dormancy, although it is mainly opportunistic, and therefore capable of growing whenever it has suitable temperatures and water. But in the Northern Hemisphere in continental or Mediterranean climates, it is advisable to let this agave rest during the short days of winter. During spring-summer, water abundantly and let the substrate dry out completely before the next watering. 

🌸 Flowering: It is monocarpic. It produces a spectacular vertical inflorescence that can reach 3–4.5 m, with yellowish-green flowers. Flowering is concentrated mainly between March and June. The flowering rosette dies afterward, but the abundant production of offsets allows the colony to continue developing.

🧪 Nutrition: During active growth, fertilize with Desert CHOICE Succulents at a moderate and regular dose. Gradually reduce fertilization at the end of the growing season and suspend it during cold periods.

🪴 Pot
Gourmet black pot of 13x13 cm

This is a xerophytic inimitable cultivated in Madrid in a square technological pot with the substrate activated with mycorrhizal fungi and biofungicides.