Accession Data
Agave tequilana
Common Name: Weber's Blue Agave
Family: Asparagaceae
Country of Origin: Mexico - cultivated only, no wild populations known
Description: Flowering plants extend a tall shoot, 15 feet high or more, with pale yellow flowers at the top. The wild flowers are pollinated by local long-nosed bats (Leptonycteris nivalis), and then after producing 3,000-5,000 seeds, the plant would naturally die.
Cultivated only, no wild populations known. Probably derived from A. angustifolia.2
Uses: This is the Agave used to produce Tequila. A good site describing the history and commercial process of Tequila production can be found here - last visited 15 November 2004
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 9b-10
Accession #: 200400269
Accession Date: 2004-11-15
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2210
Quantity: 1
Source: Connecticut College
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
SubFamily: Agavoideae
Tribe: Agaveae
References
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, January 04, 2017.
- WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Wednesday, January 04, 2017.
- Agave tequilana at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Wednesday, October 25, 2017.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by Kurt Stüber [1] [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Wednesday, October 25, 2017.
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Website at MoBot. Last accessed on Tuesday, 03 December, 2019.
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