Agave Species, Black-spined Agave, Century Plant, Maguey

Bought mine mail order as a small seedling from Mesa Gardens. It's doing well in the greenhouse and has reached a nice medium size in ...Read Morea 1 gal. Pot.
Leaves are a bit longer than stocky outdoor- grown plants and
grey enough, but could be grayer. Black tipped spine.
In the greenhouse it will stay, as I'd never trust it outdoors to the few degrees of winter frost we get here in Santa Rosa, coupled with too much rain.
Beautiful plant, and well worth growing. Mine has not pupped yet. Maybe it needs a larger pot.

Large established plants in big 2x3' foot pot, and smaller clump of 3 heads in ground for 2-3 years, froze to roots and died in Phoenix a...Read Morerea after 4-5 nights 5-6 degrees F of frost. Seems very sensitive to freezing temps compared to most landscape agaves.

Stemless or short-stemmed rosettes;leaves can to 55 cm long(average length 15-30 cm)with 3 cm long terminal spine.

One of my favorite Agaves- neat, compact, anywhere from 1-2' in diameter blue-green stiff leaves with prominent black teeth and very shar...Read Morep prominent black spine. It suckers, but nearby ( not an aggressive spreader in the garden). TAlked to some collectors of this plant in the wild, and learned it is a very variable plant there, with some populations having large, jet-black terminal spines, some having red-brown spines, some with small spines, some large, etc.