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Cantala (Agave cantala)

Description

Agave cantala grows with 30 to 60 centimeters high strains and forms loose, tall and slim rosettes of 2 to 2.5 meters diameter the foothills form. The thin, often arched leaves are linear. They are rounded to the base and rounded to the tip of the blade. The light or dark green leaves are 150 to 200 centimeters long and 7 to 9 centimeters wide. They are rough on the underside of the blade, but smooth on the top. The blade edge is straight. At a distance of usually 2 to 3 centimeters there are brown, forward-bent marginal teeth, which become less or completely absent to the apex, and the larger ones are 3 to 4 millimeters long. The end mandrel is only 0, The 6 to 8 meter high rispige inflorescence has a slender shaft. Its approximately 20 loose partial blooms are in the upper half of the inflorescence and sometimes bear bulbs . The slender single flowers are 70 to 85 millimeters long. Their tepals are greenish, purple or reddish. They have nearly the same lobes of 25 to 28 millimeters in length. The bulb is 14 to 17 millimeters long.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Asparagales

            • Family: Asparagaceae

              • Genus: Agave