Agave stricta Salm-Dyck is a small species, forming large balls of skewer-like leaves and looking like a very nasty porcupine. This species has the tightest spherical shape of any agave and will form offshoots to create a colony of rosettes. Each rosette grows in a slightly different direction and reminds one of a freeze-frame photo of grasses blowing in the wind or of forests of anemones moving with the currents. The rosettes grow hundreds of thin leaves, 30 to 100 cm in height and width. Leaves are narrow, evergreen, yellow-green, green or glaucous blue, square to roundish in cross-section , toothless on the margin, about 35 cm long; thick at base, then narrowing to end in a very sharp spine.
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Genus name comes from from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ, “Agave”), from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).
Agave stricta
Agave stricta is ca. 50 cm tall and comes in a ø 21 cm pot.