First Description

Symbolae Antillanae 4: 152, 1903

Synonyms

Furcraea agavephylla Brotero ex Schultes (1829)
    (Systema Vegetabilium 7(1): 731, 1829)

Furcraea altissima Hort. ex Trelease (1915)
    (L. H. Bailey: The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 3: 1305, 1915)

Furcraea altissima Todaro ex Borzi (1909)

Furcraea andina Trelease (1915)
    (L. H. Bailey: The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 3: 1305, 1915)

Agave aspera Jacquin (1762) (Basionym)
    (Enumeratio Stirpium Pleraumque, quae sponte crescung in agro Vindobonensi, App. 307, 1762)

Furcraea aspera (Jacquin) Roemer (1847)
    (Familiarum Naturalium Regni Vegetabilis Synopses Monographicae 4: 293, 1847)

Agave cubensis Jacquin (1763)
    (Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia: 100, 1763)

Fourcroya cubensis (Jacquin) Ventenat (1796)
    (Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris 1: 66, 1793)

Furcraea cubensis (Jacquin) Ventenat (1793)
    (Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris 1: 66, 1793)

Furcraea deledevantii Rivière (1902)
    (Rev. Cult. Colon. 11: 68, 1902)

Furcraea delevantii Rivière (1902)
    (Rev. Cult. Colon. 11: 68, 1902)

Furcraea elegans Todaro (1876)
    (Hortus Botanicus Panormitanus 1: 13, t. 4, 1876)

Furcraea ghiesbreghtii Hort. Verschaffelt ex Todaro (1876)

Agave hexapetala Jacquin (1760) (Basionym)
    (Enumeratio Systematica Plantarum: 18, 1760)

Furcraea macrophylla Baker (1899)
    (Hooker's Icones Plantarum 26 (ser. 4, 6): 2501, 1899)

Agave odorata Persoon (1805)
    (Synopsis Plantarum [Persoon] 1: 380, 1805)

Furcraea pugioniformis Hort. Verschaffelt ex Todaro (1876)

Furcraea valleculata Jacobi (1867)
    (Nachtraege I in Abh. Schles. Ges. Vaterl. Cult., Abth. Naturwiss., 1868: 60, 1868)

Literature

A. Alvarez de Zayas: El Género Furcraea (Agavaceae) en Cuba, 1996

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Basic Data

Subgenus

Furcraea

Diameter

up to 3m

Inflorescence

up to 8m

Flower Color

whitish

Flowering Time

September - January

Reproduction

seed, bulbils, vegetative

Common Name

Natural Location

Occurrence

Cuba, Bahamas, Jamaica, Hispaniola

Remarks

Indoor Summer

Exposition

Watering

Indoor Winter

Temperature

Soil

Outdoor

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Hardiness