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Agave salmiana (also known as maguey pulquero and green maguey)[5] is a species of the family Asparagaceae, native to central and southern Mexico. It is also reportedly naturalized in South Africa, Italy and Spain, specially in the Canary Islands.[6][7]

Agave salmiana
Agave salmiana in San Francisco Botanical Garden
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Asparagaceae
Subfamily:	Agavoideae
Genus:	Agave
Species:	A. salmiana
Binomial name
Agave salmiana Otto ex Salm-Dyck[2]
Synonyms[3][4]
Agave atrovirens var. salmiana (Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Maire & Weiller Agave atrovirens var. sigmatophylla A. Berger Agave chinensis F.P.Sm. Agave coarctata Jacobi Agave cochlearis Jacobi Agave compluviata Trel. Agave dyckii H.Jacobsen Agave jacobiana Salm-Dyck Agave lehmannii Jacobi Agave mitraeformis Jacobi Agave quiotifera Trel. ex Ochot. Agave salmiana var. cochlearis (Jacobi) A.Terracc. Agave tehuacanensis Karw. ex Salm-Dyck Agave whitackeri H.Jacobsen

This species, also called Agave of Salm or Salm-Dick, is dedicated to the German prince and botanist Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (1773-1861).

Description

A. salmiana presents a spiral-shaped rosette with large flared and erect leaves. These leaves are thick, dark green with a large point at the tip and strong spines on the edges. When a leaf has unfolded, it leaves an imprint on the leaf underneath.

Like most agaves, the species is monocarpic, that is to say it only flowers once and then dies. This flowering occurs after 15 to 25 years producing a vertical floral stem, typically up to 4 m (13 ft) long and bearing greenish-yellow flowers. The largest specimens have been significantly taller. One specimen growing at the Strawberry Canyon Botanical Garden on the campus of U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California in 1974 produced an inflorescence with a total height of 52 feet (16 m) of which the scape or peduncle was about 39' 4" (12 m) and the panicle per se was 13 feet (4 m).[8] Hermann J.H. Jacobsen states that the inflorescence of A. salmiana has reached an overall height of 62 feet (19 m),[9] making the inflorescence of A. salmiana the tallest of any known species of plant.

Old plants reach 1.8 m in height and the leaves form a rosette 3.6 m in diameter.

The variety A. salmiana var. ferox (K.Koch) Gentry[2] is often encountered in cultivation. The epithet ferox is due to the hard and long (up to 8 cm) spines.

Distribution

Originally from southern and central Mexico, it was introduced into gardens with a Mediterranean climate in Europe and sometimes escaped into the wild, thus becoming naturalised in some parts of southern Europe.

Cultivation

Cultivation is easy in a well-drained sandy soil with sunny exposure. For a pot culture, it requires a container of very large size to remain in a harmonious appearance. It can be used to stabilise a slope. It can withstand a light frost if it is completely dry. It is multiplied more easily by planting shoots than by seedlings.

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[es] Agave salmiana

Agave salmiana, de nombre común maguey pulquero, manso o de montaña,[1] es una planta suculenta de origen mexicano, a partir de cuyo zumo se produce la bebida alcohólica llamada pulque. En una lengua del Caribe, maguey era el nombre que los nativos daban a las plantas de sábila o aloe; cuando los españoles arribaron a las Antillas en el siglo XVI, conocieron de la planta e hicieron extensivo el nombre a todas las otras de forma similar que encontraron a su paso por las Américas. Así fue como más de 400 variedades de plantas amarilidáceas fueron llamadas magueyes. Tan solo en México crecen y prosperan al menos 136 especies, 26 subespecies, 29 variedades y 7 formas de magueyes, desde los pequeños magueyes henequeneros cuyas fibras utilizaron los antiguos nativos meso americanos para proveerse de vestimenta y gran número de utensilios, hasta los gigantescos magueyes del altiplano mexicano que llegan a alcanzar tres metros de altura y 10 metros de circunferencia.

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