Black-Spined Agave (Agave macroacantha) in the Agaves Database

This is a beautiful plant that varies from silver to bit more blue.with small black teeth edging part way down the leaf and a black terminal spine. They tend to clump freely and form nice, rounded mounds.

This species needs some shade in the low desert's intense sun, but almost no supplemental water - a once a month soaking in the hottest parts of Phoenix summer is sufficient.

There is some evidence that this plant is resistant to the Agave Snout Weevil, Scyphophorus acupunctatus.

Propagation is primarily through pups.

One of my absolute favorite Agaves, in case you couldn't tell. 8*)

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