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3 different looks with blur. Taken at the same time as the previous images of the agave plant.
Intentional camera movement used.
Spent a few days driving along the rim of Marble Canyon on the Navajo Nation. Many wonderful overlooks with no other people anywhere within sight (save for the river rafters). Does it get much better? Well, yes actually! One of the overlooks was decorated with many Utah (or Kaibab) agave plants in all phases of growth from fresh young plants to older ones near the end of their lives. The elders send up 6'-10' tall seed stalks and use their last ounce of stored energy to reproduce gloriously, martyring themselves for the progeny.
L'agave à cou de cygne (Agave attenuata) est une espèce de la famille des Agavaceae.
Elle forme des touffes de rosettes de feuilles de couleur vert-gris, sans épines terminales.
L'inflorescence de l'agave à cou de cygne est particulièrement décorative. Courbe, évoquant un cou de cygne, c'est à elle que cette espèce doit son nom vernaculaire.
Agave americana, el agave amarillo o pita, es una planta perenne perteneciente a la familia Agavaceae.(detalle).
I felt so blessed, on this last trip to Monument Valley, to see it in springtime. Who could believe there are so many flowers blooming in the desert? And to see it all at sunset...magnificent!
For those who've asked, this is not HDR -- just me tweaking, burning, dodging, toning one shot. Sunset definitely helped, as the earth here is a dull rusty color much of the day.
Part of my ten day study of the evolution of an Agave plant under natural light in Plenty Valley, Melbourne, Australia
One of several Agave attenuata in my garden. Native to Mexico. I love these ornamental plants and particularly the smooth appearance and feeling to the leaves, which I wanted to portray.
A monochrome and crop this time to accentuate form, smooth texture and especially the graceful unopened leaves in the centre.
Each leaf 60 cm in length.
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"MAGUEY Y LAGO "
Entered in JULY CONTEST: Cactus with Flowers, Hairs and Thorns. in TMI Group.
THANK YOU ALL MY KIND FLICKR FRIENDS. YOUR COMMENTS AND INVITATIONS ARE VERY MOTIVATING AND APPRECIATED.
GRACIAS A TODOS MIS AMABLES AMIGOS DE FLICKR. SUS COMENTARIOS, INVITACIONES Y FAVORITOS, SON MUY MOTIVANTES Y APRECIADOS.
Images and textures of my own.
Querétaro - México.
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These plants just wow me, especially when they're chest high and have the most amazing patterns on them. Gray green, and thick, they just want to be stroked and to feel the solidness of each leaf. It's easy to avoid the thorns, helpfully only on the outer edges.
Shot this morning on a walk around the neighborhood. Sorry to say I don't know the name of this plant, although It's fairly common -- could it be some agave variety?
One more of my shopping center photos. There was a very nice agave (have a photo of the entire plant I will post some other time) that was in flower. Flowers were in various stages of bloom and there were a ton (well maybe a half-pound) of honey bees flying all around.
I captured this sweet collection of agave in bloom in the Munds Mountain Wilderness near Sedona last weekend. A storm was receding from the area which created some exquisite lighting.
One gray-green and healthy, one wilting, making for a nice natural abstract composition.
UC Davis Arboretun, Davis, Ca. Feb. 2023.
A triptych of the huge Agave flower spike that is attracting lots of bees. The flowers are opening from the bottom of the spike to the top, with the macro lens being used to get closer to the individual florets. A google lens search calls this an Agave attenuata.
L'Agave americana est une plante succulente originaire du Mexique. Sa rosette de feuilles coriaces pouvant aisément atteindre 4 mètres d'étalement pour 2 mètres de hauteur est devenue peu à peu fort commune sur tout le pourtour méditerranéen où la plante s'est fort bien naturalisée
Une mort théâtrale
L'agave d'Amérique est une plante monocarpique c'est à dire que l'unique floraison au cours de sa vie va épuiser la plante entière et la faire mourir. Les rejets présents sur tout le pourtour de la rosette mère devraient alors prendre le dessus et croître à leur tour.
Les graines libérées à la fin de la floraison ainsi que les plantules parfois présentes en haut de la tige florale permettront elles aussi d'assurer la descendance de la plante.
Au bout d'une quinzaine d'années de vie, vous verrez apparaître une drôle de tige conique au centre de votre agave. Vous constaterez sa vigueur et sa croissance très rapide. La tige va alors croître de plusieurs mètres en quelques mois pour atteindre une hauteur totale d'environ 10 mètres. Elle va ensuite se ramifier et portera des panicules étalées de fleurs verdâtres sans grand intérêt esthétique. Cette floraison intervient en été et peut durer plus d'un mois. Peu à peu, de nombreuses plantules viendront compléter le tableau au bout de la hampe florale.
La scène va mettre plusieurs mois à prendre place, jusqu'au cœur de l'automne, période à laquelle la rosette de feuilles mère épuisée par la production de graines et de plantules va peu à peu se faner. Dans le courant de l'hiver suivant, la haute hampe malmenée par les vents violents et les pluies finira par tomber. Une nouvelle aventure commencera alors pour les graines disséminées par les éléments et pour les plantules qui trouveront au sol la place de s'implanter durablement permettant ainsi à la plante de renaître de ses cendres.
I can't believe that it's been a full year since I was introduced to the Agave. I never became a fan of the plant: most people who love Agaves love the leaves, and I'm not impressed except with their size. And I might have become more enamored if I could have seen the flowers from above.
These flowers in this image are at least 25 feet above me, and there were six stalks. You can view this large to get just a slightly better idea, but these flowers hadn't opened.
Remember, the stalks were at least 25 feet over my head: "Agave parrasana, the cabbage head agave or cabbage head century plant, is a flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. A slow-growing evergreen succulent from North East Mexico, it produces a compact rosette of fleshy thorn-tipped grey-green leaves, 60 cm tall and wide. The leaves are blue green and the thorns are red. The whole plant may reach 100 centimeters (that's three feet!) tall and wide. Occasionally mature plants produce a spectacular flower head up to 6m tall, opening red and turning yellow.[This signals the death of the flowering rosette, however offsets may form and continue growing."
Every one of those flowers is 3-5 inches long. Truth is, they look like large and crowded aloe blooms. I estimate that each bract in this image has 40-50 flowers.
They're called "century plants" because some can live 100 years. However old they are, when many of them flower for the first and only time, it signals the end of the plant. Although it has sent out shoots, you've got a long wait until the new plant flowers.
Last year, one of Ruth's original Agave's flowered . The staff trie everything to brace the plant so that it wouldn't fall over, but to no avail. When an agave is tired, it's tired. I don';t know what the plan is, but the hole that was left behind is about 25 feet across. I'm sure there are plans. Meanwhile, I saw that there are at least two more that are flowering this year.
Agave is a genus of monocots native to the hot and arid regions of the Americas, although some Agave species are also native to tropical areas of South America. The genus Agave is primarily known for its succulent and xerophytic species that typically form large rosettes of strong, fleshy leaves. Agave now includes species formerly placed in a number of other genera, such as Manfreda, ×Mangave, Polianthes and Prochnyanthes. Plants in this genus may be considered perennial, because they require several to many years to mature and flower. However, most Agave species are more accurately described as monocarpic rosettes or multiannuals, since each individual rosette flowers only once and then dies; a small number of Agave species are polycarpic. Along with plants from the closely related genera Yucca, Hesperoyucca, and Hesperaloe, various Agave species are popular ornamental plants in hot, dry climates, as they require very little supplemental water to survive. Most Agave species grow very slowly. Some Agave species are known by the common name "century plant". 28462
Agave is a genus of monocots. The plants are perennial, but each rosette flowers once and then dies (see semelparity). Some species are known by the name century plant.[4]
In the APG III system, the genus is placed in the subfamily Agavoideae of the broadly circumscribed family Asparagaceae.[5] Some authors prefer to place it in the segregate family Agavaceae. Traditionally, it was circumscribed to be composed of about 166 species, but it is now usually understood to have about 208 species.[6]
source: wikipedia
I have blue agave plants in my Tucson but this plant is courtesy of Wikipedia which help I support. With an ongoing small donation.
Agave tequilana, commonly called blue agave (agave azul) or tequila agave, is an agave plant that is an important economic product of Jalisco, Mexico, due to its role as the base ingredient of tequila, a popular distilled beverage. The high production of sugars named agavins, mostly fructose, in the core of the plant is the main characteristic that makes it suitable for the preparation of alcoholic beverages.
Blue agave
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Monocots
Order:
Asparagales
Family:
Asparagaceae
Subfamily:
Agavoideae
Genus:
Agave
Species:
A. tequilana
Binomial name
Agave tequilana
F.A.C.Weber
Synonyms[1]
Agave angustifolia subsp. tequilana (F.A.C.Weber) Valenz.-Zap. & Nabhan
Agave palmeris Trel.
Agave pedrosana Trel.
Agave pes-mulae Trel.
Agave pseudotequilana Trel.
Agave subtilis Trel.
The tequila agave is native to the states of Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit and Aguascalientes in Mexico. The plant favors altitudes of more than 1,500 metres (5,000 ft) and grows in rich and sandy soils. Blue agave plants grow into large succulents, with spiky fleshy leaves, that can reach over 2 metres (7 ft) in height. Blue agaves sprout a stalk (quiote) when about five years old that can grow an additional 5 metres (16 ft); they are topped with yellow flowers.[2][3] The stalk is cut off from commercial plants so the plant will put more energy into the heart.[4]
The flowers are pollinated by the greater long-nosed bat (and by insects and hummingbirds) and produce several thousand seeds per plant, many of them sterile. The plant then dies. Cultivated plants are reproduced by planting the previously removed shoots; this has led to a considerable loss of genetic diversity in cultivated blue agave.
It is rarely kept as a houseplant, but a 50-year-old blue agave in Boston grew a 9 m (30 ft) stalk requiring a hole in the greenhouse roof and flowered in the summer of 2006.[5]
Tequila production
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Agave azul
Agave tequilana 'Weber's Azul'
Tequila is made only from a specific cultivar of Agave tequilana called 'Weber Azul'. The plant is from the Asparagaceae family. This cultivar is larger and blue-gray in color compared to the smaller and green normal A. tequilana. It is a rapid grower and prolific offsetter in keeping with its agricultural advantages. Tequila is produced by removing the heart (piña) of the plant in its seventh to fourteenth year (depending on growth rate and whims of harvester). Harvested piñas normally weigh 40–90 kg (80–200 lb).[4] This heart is stripped of its leaves and heated to convert the inulin to sugars. Then the roasted core is pressed or crushed to release the sugary clear liquid called aguamiel, which is, in turn, fermented and distilled into alcohol. Tequila is also made with a sugar formulation 51% agave and 49% other sugars. These tequilas are referred to as Mixtos.[6]
What I a originally called the Lemondrop Agave is misnamed when you consider the the flower itself can be six feet long! I'm hoping that these two images appear with the closeup on the right.
This Agave flowers from the base up. When it gets to the very top, depending on species, the entire stem (more like a trunk) will keel over, with a new "flower" starting the next year, OR the entire plant may die.
Considering that an agave that reaches 30 feet of more than can 75 years to get to that height, it just wears me out knowing that it has to start all over again. It's like the Sisyphus of succulents.
The closeup shows how many thousands of tiny flowers can make up just one stalk. This one was in bloom for only two months, but it provided pollens for many hives of bees in the area.
is a genus of monocots native to the hot and arid regions of the Americas, although some Agave species are also native to tropical areas of South America. Agave is primarily known for its succulent and xerophytic species that typically form large rosettes of strong, fleshy leaves.