Agave pedunculifera

[Jankol]

Agave pedunculifera (TRELEASE 1920) was originally placed in the group Amolae by Gentry in 1982. Subsequently this group has been incorporated into the Serrulatae. This plant is very closely related to agave attenuata, from which it differs in it's stemless habit.
The plant shown is growing in Kew Gardens, London.

agave pedunculifera

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[Geoff]

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[Spination]

Here's an interesting link with a series of photos depicting the blooming event for this species.
The link is from a plant at: Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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While the rosette and flower spike are similar to agave attentuata, the flower spike of pedunculifera apparently appears to differ from the typical "fox tail" visual description of attenuata in that it is more robust, more orange than yellow in flower color, and without the dramatic curvature of the flower spike.

[mickthecactus]

Handsome plant. I take it the bottom 2 pictures aren't Kew?

[Spination]

You are right. The "RSN" at the bottom of the pics I'm pretty sure refers to "Rancho Soledad Nursery", which features many plants provided by "Rancho Tissue Technologies, Inc., a cutting edge environmentally controlled tissue culture laboratory". From what I gather, RSN established RTT, but subsequently split off RTT as it's own business. They work together with RTT, which provides RSN with plants tissued exclusively for them. They are big time, with tons of awesome plants.

[vpapiom]

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my Agave pedunculifera says googbye with a glorious blooming!

[DesertDweller]

Came across a couple of these today, RSN clone in particular. Not sure how we'll they'd do planted out, but they were impressive to behold.

To provide some scale, these are 3-gallon pots:

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