Agave toumeyana ssp bella Gila Southeast Europe with 4' stalks

with 4' stalks

the more we love it

Our seed was shared by Virginia plantsman Paul James from genetics originating in the Ironto Shale Barrens

8' tall specimens with bizarrely branching fronds

This magnificent and heretofore impossible breeding breakthrough comes from Kentucky's plant breeding phenomenon

Agave toumeyana ssp bella Gila Southeast Europe with 4' stalksThis seed collection of the dwarf Agave toumeyana ssp. bella hails from Gila County (north of Phoenix), Arizona at 4,100' elevation, where it covers the faces of large rocky cliffs, growing alongside Agave chrysantha. Agave toumeyana is named after early 1900s botanist J. W. Toumey, who did quite a bit of field work in Arizona. The cute, small, offsetting 6" tall x 10" wide rosettes are composed of narrow dark green leaves, highlighted with random