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Agave americana L.

Synonyms

Agave spectabilis, Aloe americana

Common names

Century plant, sabbar

My notes

Likely to be a different species, A. angustifolia or Agave sisalana.

Extract from Wikipedia article

Agave americana, common names century plant, maguey or American aloe, is a species of flowering plant in the family Agavaceae, originally native to Mexico, Arizona and Texas but cultivated worldwide as an ornamental plant. It has become naturalized in many regions including the West Indies, parts of South America, the Mediterranean Basin, parts of Africa, India, China, Korea, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia and an assortment of oceanic islands.[+]

Mexican agaves (Agave americana) near back entrance of Texas A and M University in Education City campus. Doha, Qatar, March 26, 2014
Unnamed Road, Education City, Ar-Rayyān, Qatar

Blooming Mexican agaves (Agave americana) near back entrance of Texas A and M University in Education City campus. Doha, Qatar, March 26, 2014
Unnamed Road, Education City, Ar-Rayyān, Qatar

Blooming century plants (Agave americana) near back entrance of Texas A and M University in Education City campus. Doha, Qatar, March 26, 2014
Unnamed Road, Education City, Ar-Rayyān, Qatar

Bulbils of century plant (Agave americana) near Majlis Al Taawon Street in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, April 19, 2014
Majlis Al Taawon St, Doha, Qatar

Mexican agave (Agave americana) in a park at Al Rafiei Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, March 13, 2016
Meshrif St, Doha, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Agave americana, Wikipedia article
• Agave americana from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

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Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.