Agave cernua

Agave cernua the nodding agave is a large agave native to the subtropical biome of Guerrero and Oaxaca states, Mexico, growing in dry tropical forest and on rocky hillsides. The epithet cernua means ‘nodding’ (from Latin), referring to the drooping tips of the leaves that give the large rosette its characteristic silhouette. Large rosette with broad, grey-green, spine-margined leaves. Monocarpic. Family Asparagaceae.

Full sun; very well-drained soils; drought-tolerant; warm subtropical conditions.

• ‘Cernua’ = nodding (drooping leaf tips distinctive silhouette character); Guerrero-Oaxaca specialist
• Large grey-green rosette; nodding leaf tips; dry tropical forest and rocky hillsides; monocarpic
• Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico subtropical biome; dry tropical forest and rocky hillsides
• Genus Agave: ~200 species; Americas; Family Asparagaceae (Agavoideae); Order Asparagales
• Full sun; well-drained soils; drought-tolerant; warm subtropical; monocarpic; Family Asparagaceae

Agave cernua the nodding agave is named for the distinctive nodding tips of its large leaves, a characteristic Guerrero and Oaxacan agave of the dry tropical forest.

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