Species · genus Agave · Asparagaceae

Pulque Agave

Agave applanata K.Koch

Also known as: Maguey

Growth habit

succulent perennial

Native range

Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest

Reference · A. applanata

Cultivars of A. applanata

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under A. applanata yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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Agave applanata is a succulent perennial from arid and semi-arid regions of Mexico, forming a stout rosette that stores water in its thick leaves. Give it the brightest, most direct light you have and a gritty, fast-draining mix, and water deeply only when the soil has dried out completely — typically every 2 to 4 weeks, longer in winter. Standing moisture rots the crown and roots, so err toward keeping it dry.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Direct sun

Water

≈ every 28 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

10–32 °C

Soil mix

Gritty, sharply draining cactus and succulent mix

Propagation

Separate basal offsets from the parent

Fertilizing

Light feed once or twice through spring and summer

Growth rate

Slow

Flowering

Tall flower spike only after many years, then the rosette dies

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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