Fox tail agave — 1 of 4 · Photo: “Agave-dragão” by FlavianusEP, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Resized by Vanagrha; shared under the same licence.

Fox tail agave, photo 2 — 2 of 4 · Photo: Alan Rockefeller, iNaturalist, CC BY

Fox tail agave

সিংহলেজা

Agave attenuata Salm-Dyck

light: Full sun
water: Little
tall: 1.2 m
wide: 2.0 m

Asparagaceae

Also called Swan-neck Agave

Formerly Agave cernua

When it flowers

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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.

Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.

PetsRHS lists it as toxic to dogs and cats (25 Oct 2026)

PeopleNo safety information yet

If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.

Something wrong with it?

About it

Grows as: Succulent subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
Climate: SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
Wild in: Mexico (México State, C. Jalisco, Michoacán)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
Light: Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
Height: 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from RHS, one source
Spread: 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS, one source
Water: Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
Flowers: YellowRead from Wikipedia and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia green, yellow; RHS yellow
Coldest it survives: -0.8 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Wikipedia and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia -6.7 °C; RHS 5 °C

Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.

In other languages (12)

Spanish: Maguey del dragón, Maguey cuello de cisne
root: Amoli
Portuguese: Agave-dragão, pescoço-de-cisne
Estonian: händagaav
Russian: Агава оттянутая
Czech: agáve ocasatá
Japanese: ハツミドリ
Chinese (China): 翡翠盘, 狐尾龙舌兰
German: Drachenbaum-Agave
Chinese: 翠綠龍舌蘭, 初綠, 翡翠盤
Polish: agawa zwężona
Thai: อากาเวคอหงส์

Where this comes from

iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
3D model: Agave attenuata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own

A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.