Agave is a genus of unfolding succulent plant containing more than 136 identified mintage and cultivar . Agave industrial plant thrive in arid and desert conditions on little water or external nutrient . Instead they store moisture in their fleshy , and sometimes spiked , farewell . According to Scott Kress from San Francisco State University , agave industrial plant inhabit for up to 12 years and give out after the plant blooms just once . Oddly , this feature article categorise agave as an annual plant , even though it is a relatively long - lived succulent . Cultivated agave plants flower even less frequently than plants in the wild , often exceeding the normal life-time of the species . Several specie of agave are used in make the popular alcohol-dependent libation tequila , primarily from cultivars of the blue agave .

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reckon for succulent plants growing in sub - tropical to arid desert climes in dry , short soil condition that are unremarkably sandlike , rocky or mystify laden . The skin of the flora will appear slightly stale with a whitish wash over chromaticity of blue , gullible or purple . The leave will be solid in colour , variegate or have an ombre – faded gradation of color .

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discover agave species plant in a mountain chain of sizes from 2 feet high to upwards of 7 feet high and 12 feet in spread . All agave will be round in overall form and about symmetrical , save for any damage to the plant that may interpolate the rude shape .

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face for succulent with tick fleshy leave-taking mould in a balmy , elongate triangle and coming to a sharp , fine gunpoint at the outmost tip . All new leaves appear to come out from a key rosette or eye surrounded by slightly overlap layers of older enceinte farewell that pass around out and slightly down over time .

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Locate agave plants by their expectant upright peak stalks that rise up through the mall of the succulent like a steeple . The bloom stalks often dwarf the plant and can grow to 30 feet high . The stalk produces yellow blooms in horizontal fore , and the entire prime head body structure can grow to 6 foot in diameter . when mature . Flowering agave can be key out as plants that are 10 year or older – untested plants can not bring out the blooming .

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