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Agave filifera
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Agave filifera, the thread agave, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Central Mexico from Querétaro to Mexico State. It is a small or medium-sized succulent plant that forms stemless rosette up to 3 feet (91 cm) across and up to 2 feet (61 cm) tall. The leaves are dark green to a bronzish-green in color and have very ornamental white bud imprints. The flower stalk is up to 11.5 feet (3.5 m) tall and is densely loaded with yellowish-green to dark purple flowers up to 2 inches (5.1 cm) long. Flowers appear in autumn and winter.
- Family
- Asparagaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Agave filifera
- Slug
- agave-filifera
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Genus
- Agave
- Species
- filifera
- Wikidata QID
- Q141192
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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