#multifilifera

[lescacteesdesaintjean]

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[annpacchi]

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[ruthbancroftgarden]

Agave multifilifera

Though originally named as a species, this plant was subsequently re-named as a subspecies of Agave filifera (A. filifera ssp. multifilifera). In my view, it is distinct enough to be regarded as a separate species, since it is a larger plant with a much stouter and taller flower stalk, and many times the number of flowers. The bracts on the stalk are also much more slender and thread-like, as can be seen at the bottom of the photo above. We are very happy to have it flower here at the Ruth Bancroft Garden, since we have not had it do so before. Though often placed in the family Agavaceae, this family has in recent years been included in the Asparagus Family, as the subfamily Agavoideae. Happily, the plants themselves are utterly indifferent to the taxonomic knots that we tie ourselves up with. . .

-Brian

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Agave filifera 

A couple of weeks ago I posted photos of Agave multifilifera, so I thought it might be instructive to show Agave filifera as well. The latter has much smaller rosettes and forms large clumps of many heads, contrasting with the single (but larger) heads of A. multifilifera. The flower stalks of A. filifera are also shorter and more slender, with the flowers less packed together. Though both plants have curling threads on their leaf margins, those of A. filifera are much finer and less conspicuous. The two plants do not grow near to each other, with A. filifera found in central Mexico (to the north of Mexico City), and A. multifilifera found far to the northwest in the Sierra Madre Occidental.

-Brian