Photo of Foxtail Agave (Agave attenuata) uploaded by cliftoncat

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Location: Baja California
Date: 2020-12-09
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Date: 2017-12-29
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No more grass.
Location: Baja California
Date: 2009-11-16
Inflorescences grow toward the south

At a public garden in San Diego, CA
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Date: 2010-04-11
Transplant
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Illuminated by streetlight
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Basal offsets also flowering in abbreviated form
Location: San Antonio Botanical Garden, San Antonio, Texas
Date: 2022-04-04
Location: Baja California
Date: 2020-10-22
Location: Baja California
Date: 2010-02-23
Location: Baja California
Date: 2020-11-26
Location: Rio de Janeiro 
Date: 2023-06-10
Location: Baja California
Date: 2021-01-19
Double pistil
Location: Baja California
Date: 2013-04-10
Hail damage

photo credit: H. Zell
Location: Baja California
Date: 2014-11-21
Location: Rio de Janeiro 
Date: 2023-06-10
Location: Barcelona, Spain |April, 2023 (uploaded. This image is much older)
Date: 2023-04-03
Location: Menton, France
Date: January 1, 2024
Location: Baja California
Date: 2021-01-19
Satellite inflorescence
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: November 2013
Location: Oceanside, CA
Date: 2024-01-23
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: December 2013
Location: Baja California
Date: 2020-04-13
Roots are about as long as the leaves at this point
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2023-01-04
Foxtail Agave

At a public garden in San Diego, CA
Location: RHS Wisley, Surrey, UK.
Date: 2022-08-04
Location: Baja California
Date: 2020-11-17
Location: Barcelona, Spain |April, 2023 (uploaded. This image is much older)
Date: 2023-04-03
Location: Barcelona, Spain |April, 2023 (uploaded. This image is much older)
Date: 2023-04-03
Location: Green Spring Gardens, Alexandria, Virginia, US
Date: 2017-08-20
Lion's tail (Agave attenuata). Called Swan's neck and Foxtail als
Location: Baja California
Date: 2020-08-03
A few months away from flowering
Location: Menton, France
Date: January 1. 2024
Location: Baja California
Date: 2017-11-25
Location: Baja California
Date: 2019-11-09
Axillary branches
Location: Baja California
Date: 2021-01-20
Agave flowers past and future
Location: Botanical garden of Madeira
Date: 2023-04-11
Location: National Botanical Garden (DC) | November 2022
Date: 2022-11-26
Location: US National Arboretum, Washington DC, US
Date: 2014-08-10
Lion's tail (Agave attenuata). Called Swan's neck and Foxtail als
Location: US National Arboretum, Washington DC, US
Date: 2014-08-10
Lion's tail (Agave attenuata). Called Swan's neck and Foxtail als
Location: Lloret de Mar-ish
Date: 2019-04-22
Second half of photo
Location: Cannes
Date: 2019-04-20
Location: Cannes
Date: 2019-04-20
Offshoot
Location: US National Arboretum, Washington DC
Date: 2014-08-10
Foxtail Agave (Agave attenuata)

Photo courtesy of Annie's Annuals and Perennials
  • Uploaded by Joy

photo credit: H. Zell

At a public garden in San Diego, CA
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: November 2013
This bloom spike is not yet done growing - it is currently 6 ft.
Location: Kauai
Date: January
Location: On a garden tour
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: October 2013
Location: Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory, Baltimore, Maryland
Date: 2017-02-01
Location: Lloret de Mar-ish
Date: 2019-04-22
Location: Madeira. Botanic Garden.
Date: 2016-02-29
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: December 2013
Location: NYBG 
Date: June 14 22
Location: Washago, Ontario, Canada
Date: 2015-03-20
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Date: 2015-01-06
Location: Baja California
Date: 2021-03-07
Accelerated senescence after flowering
Uploaded by robertduval14
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: November 2013
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: summer 2009
young plant showing some variegation (not quite stable)
Location: Old Town Historic District, San Diego, California    
Date: 2015-01-12
Location: In a public garden
Date: Sep 20, 2008 1:20 PM

Date: 2018-02-06
Location: Old Town Historic District, San Diego, California     
Date: 2015-01-12
Location: Old Town Historic District, San Diego, California      
Date: 2015-01-12 
Close up of the Foxtail Agave Leaves
Location: US National Arboretum, Washington DC
Date: 2015-05-15
Foxtail Agave (Agave atennuata)
Location: US National Arboretum, Washington DC
Date: 2014-08-10
Foxtail Agave (Agave atennuata).

Photo courtesy of Annie's Annuals and Perennials
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: San Francisco Botanical Garden.
Date: July 31, 2004
photo by Stan Shebs
Uploaded by rodolfocasti
Location: Sarasota, FL
Date: 2015-04-30
At Selby Gardens
Location: San Diego, California 
Date: 2015-01-12
Location: San Diego, California
Date: 2015-01-12
Location: San Diego, California 
Date: 2015-01-12
Location: Baja California
Date: 2021-06-03

Date: 2015-03-07

Date: 2012-12-31
Location: Museum of Toulouse
credit: Roger Culos
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Date: 2017-05-13
Location: San Francisco Flower & Landscape Show
Date: 2008-03-12
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Date: November 2013
at 6 ft. this bloom spike is not yet finished growing.
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Date: 2017-05-13

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