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Agave tequilana
About
Agave tequilana, commonly called blue agave or tequila agave, is an agave plant that is an important economic product of Jalisco state of Mexico, due to its role as the base ingredient of tequila. The high production of inulin in the core of the plant is the main characteristic that makes it suitable for the preparation of alcoholic beverages.
- Family
- Asparagaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Agave tequilana
- Slug
- agave-tequilana
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Genus
- Agave
- Species
- tequilana
- Wikidata QID
- Q311065
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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