 Agave tequilana azul (Weber's Blue Agave)Weber's Blue Agave (Agave tequilana azul) is cultivated in Mexico for the production of Tequila. Agave plants are succulents with long spiny leaves. There are more than 400 species of Agave all native to North America and mostly to Mexico. They live for many years as a rosette of thick, fleshy leaves, then flower once (often around 30 years old or so) and die. However, by this stage they usually have produced a cluster of younger plants from stolons arising from the parent plant. Only the rosette that produces the flowering stem dies. The other Agave plants live on. The Blue Agave will easily grow to over 3-feet tall. A fifty year old blue agave in Boston has grown a 30 ft. stalk requiring a hole in the greenhouse roof. We offer the beautiful Agave tequilana azul (Weber's Blue Agave). It is the specific variety of Agave from which tequila is made, and comes from the state of Jalisco, Mexico. Other grown species include Agave americana, Agave angustifolia, and Agave attenuata The small Blue Agave plants are around 6-12 inches tall.
The larger plants are around 24-36 inches tall.
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