Closing scenes in the land of sand and sun Pt.#2 Aloe, Agave, and select non- cactus, succulent things

[Silas_Sancona]

..Continuing on, selected non cacti under the sun, and a special Agave. Unlike the last visit, didn't focus so much on the Yucca collection, but found a few flowering atm.

Furcraea.. I think, not sure which.


Puya laxa. Were a couple other Puya in another section of the Arboretum as well.


Aloe bloom






A few random Agave






Big, blue Dasylirion wheeleri, and a pair of big Nolina matapensis.






Yucca rigida in bloom, and off in the distance.





Agave sebastiana, Cedros Island Agave. Neat find on the first visit.  Quite a sight catching it at peak bloom.  Hopefully it produces a ton of seed.









 

[Tracy]

On 4/16/2021 at 9:47 AM, Silas_Sancona said:

Agave sebastiana, Cedros Island Agave. Neat find on the first visit.  Quite a sight catching it at peak bloom.  Hopefully it produces a ton of seed.

 

Very cool inflorescence on this species, it has such an interesting structure clumping like that.  Someday I would like to get down to Cedros Island.

[Silas_Sancona]

1 minute ago, Tracy said:

Very cool inflorescence on this species, it has such an interesting structure clumping like that.  Someday I would like to get down to Cedros Island.

Me too.. And agree. The " more compact " inflo. was the main thing that caught my attention when reading about it. Inflo. on A. shawii has a similar look as well.

  Didn't realize, until researching more, but these supposedly take 15-20 years to flower ( assuming from seed ) Supposedly available from a couple places out there atm. On my list for sure.