Agave vivipara - Caribbean Century Plant

❏ Binomial Name : Agave vivipara L.

❏ Synonym : Agave angustifolia,Agave wightii

❏ Family : Asparagaceae

❏ Common Name : Caribbean Century Plant

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❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Agave vivipara Botanical Description

Plants perennial or monocarpic. Stems very short or indistinct. Leaves in a basal rosette, large, stout, leathery-fleshy or somewhat woody, containing many fibers, margin usually spiny, rarely entire, apex tipped with a spine. Flowering stems branched or simple, tall, stout. Inflorescence terminal, a spike or panicle, mostly very large. Perianth tube short; lobes narrow, subequal. Stamens inserted at throat or in tube of perianth; filament filiform, usually longer than perianth; anther versatile. Ovary with many ovules. Style slender; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule, oblong, 3-valved, loculicidal. Seeds numerous, black, thin, flattened.

Agave vivipara Medicinal uses

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