Agave

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Asparagaceae

• Scientific Name

  Agave

• Description

  
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  Description - Fleshy herbs, some species very tall, with a short crown-like or erect caudex and a tall braeted scape, the leaves large, thick, sometimes spiny-toothed, basal, or clustered at the top of the caudex, the large bracted flowers in terminal spikes or compound clusters. Perianth tubular or funnelform, withering- persistent, with G equal or nearly equal lobes. Stamens inserted on the perianth at the bases of the lobes, exserted. Ovary 3-celled; style slender, exserted, 3-lobed; ovules numerous, in 2 rows in each cavity of the ovary. Capsule 3-lobed, thick-walled, many-seeded. Seeds compressed, somewhat cuneate, black. [Greek, signifying noble.] Perhaps 150 species. All these plants, except the Sisal, are called ' ' Bamboo ' ' in the Bahamas. We have copied here the original descriptions of the Bahama species by Professor Trelease, who had all our specimens for his investigation, and we have nothing to add to them.