Found - 252 Plant(s)
Agave cupreata
Y00-08 Agave cupreata
Zone 9b to 10 Native to Mexico Grows to 18"h x 24"w
Dwarf Cowhorn! If you love Agave bovicornuta but don't have the space then this smaller cousin is an excellent alternative. This plant has nice dark colored teeth that contrast well with the light green leaves. The leaves are also heavily teated with strong bud-imprinting. A very fine plant for containers because you don't need a 10 gal. pot to grow a beautiful specimen.
Plant Care Tips
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Agave dasylirioides
Y10-58 Agave dasylirioides
Zone 9 to 10 Native to Mexico Grows to 2'h x 4'w
Sotol maguey! This plant probably represents the oldest living relic of the agave clan - clinging to outcroppings of volanic rock in a climate that is mild and moist year around you begin to see that this not your typical desert succulent. Because of its origins and primeval environment, we believe that it will be an outstanding pot specimen. When you first lay eyes on "sotol maguey" it more closely resembles a yucca in foliage than an agave but in flower it frankly looks like a sotol. The foliage is light gray-green and dagger-like in shape. The leaf edges are so finely toothed as to be invisible to the eye but you sure can feel them - the barely visible edge is deadly.
Plant Care Tips
This is a slow growing species and very well suited for pot culture. Sotol is the common name of the genus Dasylirion.
Link to this plant: Agave dasylirioides (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Agave ferox 'Green Goblet'
Q03-52 Agave ferox 'Green Goblet' - Sold Out!
Zone 7b to 10 Native to eastern Mexico Grows to 4'h x 5'w
Huge green goblet! In an area in Mexico near the Sierra Chiquita, where all agaves are gray-green, we noticed a decidedly different plant. This lone agave was dark-green and its foliage, instead of sprawling in every direction like its neighbors, was orderly and tight in form. After observing 'Green Goblet' in the garden, we noted that its leaf base is dusted with a blue haze, giving an iridescent glow to its center. No damage at 15 degrees F.
Plant Care Tips
This item is no longer offered. You might want to
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availability.
Link to this plant: Agave ferox 'Green Goblet' (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Agave flexispina
Y10-24 Agave flexispina
Zone 7b to 10 Native to Mexico Grows to 14"h x 28"h
This somewhat small agave is native to the grama grasslands in the states of Chihuahua and Durango, Mexico at elevations around 3000' to 5000'. The plant has an open habit with comparatively few leaves. The leaves are broad and somewhat channeled inward and are generally glaucous green with the margins of the leaves lined with large teeth that are brown to black in color and tend to curve downward.
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Agave geminiflora
Y01-88 Agave geminiflora
Zone 9 to 10 Native to western Mexico Grows to 2'h x 2'w
Green explosion! This rare and, in our opinion, most beautiful agave can be grown in a pot. The flexible, bright-green, pencil-like foliage is produced in such profusion that it becomes an explosion in green. With time, a single plant will have several hundred leaves. Outstanding!
Plant Care Tips
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Agave gentryi 'Jaws'
Y03-80 Agave gentryi 'Jaws' - Sold Out!
Zone 7b to 10 Native to Mexico Grows to 4'h x 6'w
In the late 1990's when John Fairey and I were making regular treks into Mexico, I spotted this heavily armed selection in a huge colony of Agave gentryi. It made a treacherous groundcover under the old Pinus that colonized the northern slopes at high elevation in the interior mountains of the Sierra Madre Oriental. This selection was made because of the size and arrangement of the teeth which with time, as the leaves fold and die, resemble the death grip of a shark. ˜Jaws" gets its name from this habit. We have offered this plant before but never have had enough until now. ˜Jaws" is shy to offset so we put it into tissue culture and now we have plenty.
Plant Care Tips
This item is no longer offered. You might want to
e-mail Yucca Do to check for future
availability.
Link to this plant: Agave gentryi 'Jaws' (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Agave gracilipes
Y01-89 Agave gracilipes - New!
Zone 6 to 9 Native to West Texas Grows to 18"h x 30"w
Slim footed Agave! Agave gracilipes is found in West Texas, New Mexico and Chihuahua State, Mexico. It is found roughly between the natural ranges of Agave neomexicana and Agave lechuguilla and is considered to be a natural hybrid of these two agaves. The plant grows as a tight rosette, seldom offsetting, with numerous dagger-like, green to gray-green leaves. This natural hybrid exhibits a great deal of genetic diversity with each seedling being unique.
Plant Care Tips
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Agave guadalajarana
Y08-81 Agave guadalajarana - New!
Zone 10 Native to Guadalajara, Mexico Grows to 14"h x 28"w
Guadalajara Agave! A small, tight rosette of blue-gray leaves with pronounced nipples along the leaf edge with small spines embedded in them that become more numerous and larger toward the leaf tip. Endemic to a small area around Guadalajara, Mexico.
Plant Care Tips
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Agave havardiana
D01-20 Agave havardiana
Zone 6b to 9 Native to the Davis Mountains of West Texas Grows to 3'h x 3'w
Very hardy! This very cold-hardy agave has medium-sized rosettes that are densely packed with glaucous-gray leaves. This species is rarely offered.
Plant Care Tips
This is a species that is best adapted to areas of low humidity. If growing this plant in areas of high humidity, plant in a pot or if planting in the ground protect from extended rainy events. Also: The plants we sell are juvenile seedlings and have not developed the mature characteristics of the plants in the above photo.
Link to this plant: Agave havardiana (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Agave horrida
D05-38 Agave horrida
Zone 9 to 10 Native to Mexico Grows to N.A.
Papery tiger! The botanist Lemaire, who originally described this plant, gave it the specific name horrida because he though the plant was repulsive. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and we think it is one of the most attractive as well as one of the most bizarre. A small to moderate growing agave that has smooth thin leaves that are formidably armed with papery teeth. Many specimens have great bud imprinting and the overall shape of the plant is neat and symmetrical. Great for pots and sure to get many comments from visitors to your agave collection.
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Agave isthmensis
Y10-59 Agave isthmensis - On Sale!
Zone 9 to 10 Native to Mexico Grows to 8"h x 8"w
Isthmus of Tehuantepec! This recently described species occupies that narrow strip of land that marks the southern boundry of Mexico. This low humid coastal environment receives abundant moisture during the summer months. Unlike many of the other silver leaved agaves, this one does very well in our hot humid climate near the Gulf of Mexico. Because of its small size and very compact form it is one of the best adapted for pot culture.
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Agave lophantha univittata type
Y11-20 Agave lophantha univittata type - New!
Zone 8a to 10 Native to Mexico Grows to 30"h x 60"w
Univittata type! This form of Agave lophantha has medium-sized, compact, symmetrical rosettes that grow to form tight, well behaved colonies. The leaves on young pups have a bright-green stripe that runs down the center of each leaf but with age the stripe fades and the leaves turn an even, dark green. The margins of the leaves are lined with stout papery teeth that recurve forwards and back and to me the leaves sort of look like double edged pruning saws. Unlike some forms of A lophantha that form chaotic, unruly rosettes, which look like a den of vipers, this form has a very tidy rosette and is very garden-worthy.
Plant Care Tips
This clone differs from a clone of A univittata that we offered several years back in that the leaves of this plant loose the bright mid-stripe with age and turn a solid green.
Link to this plant: Agave lophantha univittata type (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Agave montana 'Baccarat'
T73-112 Agave montana 'Baccarat'
Zone 7b to 10 Native to Mexico Grows to 4'h x 4'w
Crystal bowl agave! We originally made this selection of Agave montana in 1997 on one of our trips to Mexico. We have grown it for many years and have been impressed with it all along. But it offsets slowly, making it impractical to offer in our catalog. Now, because of the miracle of tissue culture, we can offer this plant to the public. The bud imprinting and coloration on the leaves remind one of the multi-faceted effect found in fine-cut crystal, thus the cultivar name alludes to the famous Baccarat Crystal.
Plant Care Tips
Young plants will not look like the specimen in the photo. The bud imprinting and character develop with age.
Link to this plant: Agave montana 'Baccarat' (right-click to bookmark or copy link)
Agave ocahui
Q02-92 Agave ocahui
Zone 7b to 10 Native to Mexico, Sonora Grows to 2'h x 2'w
Black-green foliage! 'Ocahui' is what the people of Sonora, Mexico call fiber or cordage. This agave is native to dry areas, where it is found perched on the edges of rock faces and cliffs. It has done very well in our climate, where it quickly forms a dense, dark-green rosette that is made up of numerous smooth, narrow spear-like leaves. Tolerates excessive moisture better than most agaves.
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Agave ornithobroma
Y07-64 Agave ornithobroma
Zone 9 to 10 Native to Mexico Grows to 3'h x 5'w
Bird food Agave! Parrots in Sinaloa, Mexico love to eat the flowers of this Agave and this is the reason for the botanical name. Though you are unlikely to eat its flowers, there are plenty of reasons for people to love this plant. The form of the plant is very much like an A. geminiflora with long nearly cylindrical leaves. In habitat the plant tends to tilt to one side instead of sitting upright like A. geminiflora.
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Yucca Do Planting Guide
Full Sun
Partial Sun
Shade
Dry - 10-30" per year
Average - 30-50" per year
Moist - 50+" per year
Butterfly
Hummingbird
Ideal for Potting
