This is one of my very favorite Agaves... has large, soft succulent leaves of a sea green color with minimal to no spines along the leaf ...Read Moremargins (this is a variable trait) and can either sucker profusely, or hardly at all. Its suckers usually show up right next to the mother plant. Plants are fairly fast growing and can eventually get up to 6' in diameter. It is a spectacular landscape plant. Until recently this was a difficult Agave to obtain, but in the last 3-4 years I have seen it for sale just about everywhere. This is one of the few Agaves that might do best in some shade as the leaves tend to burn in hot blazing sun. It's also somewhat cold sensitive, though fine in zone 9b. Likes water and seems to thrive in clay soils (my old yard).
Plants in the wild RARELY sucker or produce offsets. However, most in captivity do. This is because the rare plant in the wild that is offsetting is the easiest to collect, so that is what ends up in nurseries. Seed grown plants are much more likely to be solitary. However, those are harder to come by. Soon tissue culture will be the wave (right now it is being used, but too futuristic for most nurseries, and solitary plants may be available in large numbers again.
This is one of my very favorite Agaves... has large, soft succulent leaves of a sea green color with minimal to no spines along the leaf ...Read More