Agave attenuata - Foxtail Agave

Love these succulents, especially when they're flowering. I have a couple of babies here and I'm waiting for see their arched flowering spike. They're commonly called "Swan Necks" here.

These are like the Tenerife agave that grow all over the island. Taller than they look in photos.

It’s an extremely common agave here. It called Swan Necks here, too.

It’s widely used along the freeways here.

Yes, it's a commonly used plant here as well.

They were growing everywhere in central Mexico (near Guadalajara) when we wintered there, I thought it was an elegant agave . One house we rented had number of them and I was shocked when we came next winter and they bloomed and produced dozens of little ones before they died.

It’s my favorite Agave. I like that the tip of the leaves are soft and don’t poke people.

Yes Klahanie, it produces many plantlets from the flowers. Also, what’s nice about this Agaves is that it branches after flowering, not dying like most Agave species. I want to get the variegated form, as it looks beautiful and doesn’t grow as large.