Agave schottii Engelm.

Schott's century plant (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asparagaceae > Agave

Characteristics

Plants acaulescent, freely suckering; rosettes solitary or densely cespitose, 3–6 × 6–12 dm. Leaves mostly erect, widest near base, 20–40(–50) × 0.7–2.5 cm; blade yellowish green or deep green, with or without conspicuous white bud-prints on both surfaces, linear, firm, adaxially plane or somewhat concave toward apex, abaxially convex to deeply convex toward base; margins straight, filiferous or not, unarmed, fibers erect to spreading, sparse, white, filiform, brittle; apex acuminate to long-acuminate, spine brown or grayish, acicular, 0.8–1.9 cm. Scape 1.6–4 m. Inflorescences spicate or subspicate to narrowly racemose-paniculate, laxly flowered on distal 1/4–1/2; bracts caducous, narrowly triangular, 2–4 cm; peduncle 4 cm or shorter. Flowers 1 or 2–3(–6) per cluster, erect, (2.9–)3–5 cm; perianth yellow, tube funnelform, 8–11(–14) × 5–8(–13) mm, limb lobes erect to incurved, subequal, (7–)11–16 mm; stamens slightly exserted; filaments inserted high in perianth tube, 6–13 mm above tube base at 1 or 2 levels, erect, yellow, 1.5–2.2 cm; anthers light to deep yellow, (7.5–)10–17 mm; ovary 0.8–1.6 cm, neck constricted, 3–9 mm. Capsules short-pedicellate, obovoid, 1–2.2 cm, apex rounded to beaked. Seeds 3–3.5 mm.
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A large succulent plant with leaves in a ring.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.33 - 0.4
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway cam

Environment

Gravelly to rocky places, mostly in desert scrub, grasslands, juniper and oak woodlands; at elevations from 900-2,000 metres
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It is a temperate plant.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-9

Usage

Uses environmental use material medicinal poison
Edible leaves saps stems
Therapeutic use Soap (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -7
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Agave schottii unspecified picture
Agave schottii unspecified picture

Distribution

Agave schottii world distribution map, present in United States of America

Conservation status

Agave schottii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:62261-1
WFO ID wfo-0000754789
COL ID 5TQN9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Agave schottii Agave geminiflora var. sonorae

Lower taxons

Agave schottii var. treleasei Agave schottii var. schottii