Agave Species, Queen Victoria Agave, Queen Victoria Century Plant, Maguey

Just bought this plant from the Midwest Cactus and Succulent Society's Annual Show and Sale in Cleveland. Being a member myself who speci...Read Morealizes in cacti, I was hesitant to buy it, but it looks promising.

This is a hardy plant which survived a hard freeze in the teens. I love this plant.

Zone 9b Coastal Otago New Zealand. A stunning plant that has to be on my top 10 best ever list. Found a relatively large specimen in a ...Read Morediscount homewares shop for $14, couldnt believe my luck, ran out of the carpark laughing insanely.

It has beautiful chalk white brushtroke markings over a faceted deep green leaf, and- beware- small but very evil black spines that will catch your nailbeds every time. I dont recommend falling onto a massed display of this plant.

I was reluctant to put it out into our wet winter, even potted, but it has survived the indoor-outdoor transition very well with little damage and no effect on its markings. At around 20cm across it has begun to produce very tiny offsets- I removed one rootless at around 2cm long and potted it on; it is going well at time of writing, though took twice as long as my rootless aloe offsets to start rooting.
I have recently acquired a juvenile Ferdinand-Regis specimen which I have planted out in a bed- will be interesting to see the difference in form and progress. Its leaves are longer, more hollowed out and the white markings are different.

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Seems to do well here in zone 9b. Very slow growing. Named after Queen Victoria.

Native to the Sierra Madre Oriental Mount...Read Moreains in Chihuahua, Mexico, where this plant is considered endangered due to over collecting.

This is one of the more attractive Agaves, having wonderful white delinations where the leaves are angled. The effect is quite mesmerizi...Read Moreng reminiscent of an Escher piece- a symmetical swirling of shapes in green and white. I have heard that some forms of this are NOT monocarpic, but that has not been my limited experience. It is a very slow grower and all the photos of this plant I uploaded are of very old individuals in botanic gardens in Southern California. It is an easy grow though.

There is a photo I have uploaded of a plant in Los Angeles done with its flowering episode, yet still looking as fit as ever.. maybe there are some plants, or some stages of development that are not monocarpic.