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Agave potatorum Zucc.
Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 16(2): 675 1833
Family: AGAVACEAE

Agave potatorum
Agave potatorum
(A form from the locality: Nativitas) This species is highly variable in form, size and colour and many varieties have been described and may be anywhere between 10 and 90 cm in diameter when fully grown up. The smaller form (called Butterfly Agave) are highly prized in Japan Most of them grow very symmetrically, staying smaller in containers.

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave potatorum Zucc.
Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 16(2): 675 1833
Synonymy: 6 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave potatorum f. compacta hort.

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave potatorum var. verschaffeltii A.Berger in A.Berger
Agaven 186, fig. 60 1915

Cultivars (5):
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Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Drunkard Agave
RUSSIAN (Русский): Агава картофелевидная

Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Agave potatorum group

  • Agave potatorumAgave potatorum Zucc.: Small Agave, growing solitary or slowly clumping, that forms an compact to open symmetrical succulent rosette. It is a very polymorphic species with a large range of variability and the size.
  • Agave potatorum forma compatta ('compact form)Agave potatorum f. compacta hort.: Dwarf cultivated form that grows eventually up to 20(-30) cm tall and in diameter. The leaves have distinct showy bud-imprints.
  • Agave potatorum Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico: This population has very nice bright orange marginal teeth.
  • Agave verschaffeltii (A. potatorum)Agave potatorum var. verschaffeltii A.Berger in A.Berger: The old name ''verschaffeltii '' is still in use to distinguish plants with sinuous leaf margins and with teeth atop of outward-projecting bumps.
  • Agave potatorum cv. Cubic: The leaves grow as if 2 leaves are fused together resulting in some of them having a 4 angled appearance and forming a square shape. Marginal spines can grow on up to all four of the leaf sides.
  • Agave potatorum ''Kichijokan'' (marginata alba)Agave potatorum cv. Kichijokan: Variegated form with amazing symmetrical lotus like leaf pattern. The leaves have lateral, creamy-coloured variegations. Nice imprints are present on the back side of the leaves. The edges have large rusty coloured teeth and are a purplish/maroonish colour.
  • Agave potatorum cv. Shoji-Raijin hort.: Also called 'Blue rose' it is tiny rosette of plump blue leaves that stay very small and compact. It produces offsets and forms a small clump of 6-7 cm rosettes. Mature plants stays in 10 cm pots only.
  • Agave potatorum cv. Shoji-Raijin variegata marginata hort.: Has a creamy-white or pale-green irregular stripe on the edge of the leaf.
  • Agave potatorum cv. Shoji-Raijin variegata mediopicta hort.: Has a broad white band down the centre of each leaf.


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Agave potatorum (Locality: Cameron) Photo by: Cactus Art
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Agave potatorum (Locality: Tlayaco) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

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Agave potatorum ((Locality: Nativitas) Photo by: Cactus Art
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Agave potatorum ''Compact'' ( Cultivated form ) Photo by: Cactus Art

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Agave potatorum (Locality: Cameron) Photo by: Cactus Art
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Agave potatorum (Locality: Tlayaco) Photo by: Cactus Art

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Plant with sinuous leaf margins and with teeth atop of projecting bumps are often called by the old name of A. verschaffeltii. Photo by: Cactus Art
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