Agave attenuata cv Ray of Light, aka the Foxtail Agave, is a fine leafed, delicate albomarginated foxtail agave. Spineless, easy to grow and handle. The bloom spike is densely laden with flowers and hangs downward like a "foxtail." Shown in a 6" pot shipped to you bare root.
Taxonomy:
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Agave attenuata subsp. attenuata in
- Agave attenuata var. compacta Jacobi in Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 21: 457 (1865)
- Agave attenuata var. latifolia Salm-Dyck ex A.Terracc. in Prim. Contr. Monogr. Agave: 21 (1885)
- Agave attenuata var. paucibracteata Trel. in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 1: 235 (1914)
- Agave attenuata var. subundulata Jacobi in Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 22: 273 (1866)
- Agave cernua A.Berger in Agaven: 122 (1915)
- Agave glaucescens Hook. in Bot. Mag. 88: t. 5333 (1862), nom. illeg.
- Ghiesbreghtia mollis Roezl in Gartenflora 10: 122 (1861), not validly publ.
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