Agave potatorum
Agave potatorum Zucc.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 61 cm
Asparagaceae
Formerly Agave amoena, Agave auricantha, Agave elegans, Agave latifolia, and 6 more
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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 perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico (S. Puebla to WC. Veracruz and C. Oaxaca)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and Desert-Tropicals, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 61 cmRead from Desert-Tropicals, one source
- Spread
- 61 cmRead from Desert-Tropicals, one source
- Flowers
- GreenRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -2.8 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from RHS and Desert-Tropicals, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 1 °C; Desert-Tropicals -6.7 °C
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (1)
- Chinese
- 雷神, 棱叶龙舌兰
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Desert-Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Agave potatorum (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.