Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Agave americana
Century plant, American aloe
Asparagaceae
Woodland, pastures, grasslands, old habitations, roadsides, and along streams. Mainly Sydney area. Occasionally elsewhere. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Introduced perennial herb, 2–12 m tall when flowering, rhizomatous. Sometimes with a short woody stem. Leaf margins with spiny teeth, leaf tips with a sharp pointed spine. Leaves in a basal rosette, 100-200 cm long, 150-250 mm wide, hairless, somewhat fleshy. Leaf-like bracts alternating up the flower stalks. Flowers 70-105 mm long, tubular, with 6 lobes, yellow or greenish yellow, in a many-flowered branched cluster. Flowering summer to autumn.
Family Agavaceae in PlantNET.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Agave~americana (accessed 2 April 2021)
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