Agave Potatorum.
Butterfly Agave, Papalometl
Description.
A medium sized non suckering rosette of glaucous white to green leaves in an open rosette. Leaves up to 40 cm long that reflex towards the tip. Teated margings. Twisted terminal spine red brown to grey brown.
Its native habitat is in the semi-arid highlands of Puebla and Oaxaca between up to 2300 m, where it is associated on the grassy slopes with remnants of pine and oak vegetation.
After accidental damage to the parent of this plant, basal offsets were produced and this plant is the result.
Red brown to grayish brown sinuous spines.
