AGAVE ATTENUATA
This is my favorite Agave, I love the simplicity that this plant has. No spines, no teeth and a wonderful chartreuse color. Native to the plateau of central Mexico, as one of the unarmed agaves its popular as an ornamental plant in gardens where it is warmer and it does not fall below freezing. Agave attenuata is a tropical agave, it is frost sensitive, doesn't like hot sun, and requires more water than the other agave varieties. I have mine out on the patio during the late spring and summer, otherwise it lives in the greenhouse. It is planted in a 16" pot and is about 2 1/2 feet tall. It is very sad but this plant is disappearing out in its natural habitat. It blooms only when the plant is 10 years old or more. The flower stalk is large 7 to 13 feet with yellow-green drooping flowers organized as a raceme. The plant then dies leaving suckers or pups that grow into replacement plants.
USDA hardiness zone 10 to zone 11
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