Английская Википедия:Agave macroacantha

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Agave macroacantha, the black-spined agave or large-thorned agave, is a species of succulent flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae naturally occurring in Oaxaca and also near the town of Tehuacan in the State of Puebla, Mexico.[1]

Description

Agave macroacantha produces a medium-sized leaf rosette that can be basal or can grow on a very short stem. Leaves are succulent, greyish green and up to 1.8 feet long at a maximum, ending in sharp black spines that are up to 1.2 inches long at the tips. Flowers are small, grey and red, growing in bunches on sturdy stems of up to 3 m (10 feet) in height.[2]

Cultivation

The plant prefers a dry, sunny and hot location for summer and from early autumn onwards a cooler, well-lit space. It likes regular watering in summer and only minimum watering in winter, and will fare well in a large pot with sparse, gravelly soil.[3][4][5]

In the UK this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.[6]

References

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  • The Complete Encyclopedia of Succulents by Zdenek Jezek and Libor Kunte

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  1. Zuccarini, Joseph Gerhard. Nova Acta Physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum Exhibentia Ephemerides sive Observationes Historias et Experimenta 16(2): 676. 1833.
  2. Gentry, Howard Scott. Agaves of Continental North America. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1992.
  3. San Marcos Growers, Agave macroacantha
  4. Cactus Art Nursery, Agave macroacantha viridis
  5. Jurassic Garden.com: Agave macroacantha Шаблон:Webarchive, image.
  6. Шаблон:Cite web