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- Its proper name is Dracaena surculosa punctulata and it belongs to the agave family.
- Petrie is excited about an agave family member with the impossible-to-remember botanical name of Beschorneria yuccoides.
- A similar spirit called mezcal that's frequently confused with tequila can be made from any member of the agave family.
- Mexico produces two crops not generally produced elsewhere, henequen used to produce a strong fiber and maguey, both in the agave family.
- The Sonoran Desert includes plant genera and species from the agave family, palm family, cactus family, legume family, and numerous others.
- All have bundles of fibrous cells that can be pulled out of the leaf blade and braided into rope, like sisal, which is produced from a relative in the Agave family.
- The plants appeared to be some yucca relative in the Agave family, easily five feet tall, with mottled green foliage that had a broad, luminous yellow strip down the center of each leaf.
- At some point in a tour of this area, one is apt to be offered a drink of sotol, which is distilled from the agave family of plants like tequila from Jalisco and mezcal in Oaxaca.
- The Huntington's Beaucarnea, Ponytail " Palms ", members of the agave family ( not true palms ), are some of the oldest specimens in cultivation, and among the earliest plantings in the Desert Garden.
- Geraniums, irises, roses and nasturtiums bloom in front of the houses, and turkeys forage on hillsides studded with cactuses and maguey plants, a member of the agave family that produces a flower spike resembling a colossal asparagus.
- Beschornaria yuccoides, a member of the agave family, has gray-green sword-shaped leaves that can grow four or five feet; the plant is hardy to 28 degrees, and might survive the winter in a sheltered corner.
- As a result, the APG III system contains only 415 families, rather than the 457 of APG II . For example, the agave family ( Agavaceae ) and the hyacinth family ( Hyacinthaceae ) are no longer regarded as distinct from the broader asparagus family ( Asparagaceae ).