Description.

One of my own hybrids that was produced by applying agave polycantha pollen to agave parrasana that was in flower. Unlike the host plant that has four grey/brown teeth located in the upper half of the leaf, this hybrid has darker teeth extending further down. It seems to have inherited the darker teeth from the pollen donor.

The Parrasana Gallery has images of this host plant starting with the first signs of the emerging flower spike through to flowers and seed pods. It is a compact form of parrasana that a freely offsets.

The Agave in Flower Gallery take #2 charts the progress of polycantha xalapensis that flowered in 2016 and was the pollen donor for this cross.

This plant flowered a little earlier than the host plant so the pollen was stored in the freezer following dehydration to an equilibrium relative humidity of 30%.

The best description of this plant is given as polycantha xalapensis in Gentry's book. Current thinking is that it should be called obscura.