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Agave americana f. medio-picta alba

Family: AGAVACEAE

Agave americana  'Mediopicta Alba'
Agave americana 'Mediopicta Alba'
It is one of the prettiest and most sought after variegated succulents in existence. It is a living sculpture with very dramatic leaves, the juxtaposition of the solid creamy white bands down the centre with the powder blue of margins in a neat rosette looks right to the eye.

Synonyms:

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave americana f. medio-picta alba

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave americana L.
Sp. Pl. 1: 323. 1753 [1 May 1753]
Synonymy: 41 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave americana var. expansa (Jacobi) Gentry
Agave Fam. Sonora 80. 1972 USDA Agric. Handb. no. 399
Synonymy: 3 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave americana var. oaxacensis Gentry
Agaves Cont. N. Amer. 285 (1982).

Accepted name in llifle Database:
Agave americana subs. protamericana Gentry
Agaves Cont. N. Amer. 287 (1982).

Cultivars (1):
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Common Names include:
ARABIC ( لعربية ): أغاف أمريكي
PERSIAN (فارسی): آگاوه امریکانا

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

  • Agave americana (Century Plant)Agave americana L.: Solitary or slowly clumping grey-blue rosette up to 4 m wide up to 150-200 cm tall. The leaves are often refexed above the middle. Cultivated worldwide with several different variety.
  • Agave americana f. aureo-marginata hort.: Variegated cultivar with yellow stripes along the margins of each leaf.
  • Agave americana var. expansa (Jacobi) Gentry: has a short trunk up to 60 cm tall with grey-glaucous cross zoned leaves.
  • Agave americana  'Mediopicta Alba'Agave americana f. medio-picta alba: Variegated cultivar with a broad white band down the centre of each leaf.
  • Agave americana var. oaxacensis Gentry: Has very large glaucous-white leaves with nearly straight margins. Leaves never reflexed. Cultivated form mainly in Oaxaca Valley.
  • Agave americana var. picta (Salm-Dyck) A.Terracc.: The name "picta" has been variously used to indicate a number of varieties, segregated largely on the basis of the yellow or whitish striations. This variegated forms are inconstant in their colour patterns.
  • Agave americana subs. protamericana Gentry: Regarded as the wild progenitor of the cultivated Agave americana differs in its greater variability in form, spination and colour of the leaves which generally are shorter, compact and wider.
  • Agave americana subs. protamericana cv. Blue Steel: has beautiful steel-blue, tight, upright, leaves with wider blade than some clones.
  • Agave americana var. striata Trel. in L.H.Bailey: Variegated cultivar with multiple yellow to white stripes along the leaves.
  • Agave cv. Cornelius: small monstrous and strongly variegated form with gorgeous wide creamy-yellow margins on blue-green undulating spidery foliage.

22364 star Forest Starr & Kim Starr
Cv mediopicta habit at Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula, Maui, Hawaii, USA. October 24, 2007. Photo by: Forest Starr & Kim Starr
213 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
It is among the most architectural and beautiful of succulents. Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

212 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Agave americana f. medio-picta alba Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
214 cactus-art Cactus Art
It remains smaller than most of the variegated A. americana. Photo by: Cactus Art

216 cactus-art Cactus Art
Agave americana f. medio-picta alba Photo by: Cactus Art
8851 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Agave americana f. medio-picta alba Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

215 cactus-art Cactus Art
Agave americana f. medio-picta alba Photo by: Cactus Art
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