Description.
Medium-sized, single or sparingly suckering, openly spreading, glaucous white rosettes.
Leaves broad, linear-ovate, short-acuminate, 35-55 x 12-14 cm, rigid, thick toward base, plane or concave above, convex below, the apex involute above, keeled below, white, finely granular; margin corneous, widest toward apex (3-5 mm), continuous to base or nearly so, undulate to crenate, the teeth variable, the larger 8-12 (-20) mm long, variably spaced, the leaf apex sometimes toothless for 8-12 cm below spine. Terminal spine, brown to gray, broadly conical, 3-4 cm long, with deep inrolled groove above, keeled and protruding below.
It's natural habitat is on limestone hills in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Another plant sometimes called Agave 'Felipe Otero' (FO-076) is quite different from what Gentry described and is thought to be a form of Agave titanota.
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Agave titanota at Eau Brink Cacti.
Agave titanota at Eau Brink Cacti.
