Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer RCH Shepherd, Melton Grasslands, Vic

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, S of Parkes, NSW

Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, W of Lockhart, NSW

Flower buds. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer RG & FJ Richardson, Clifton Springs, Vic

Common Name

Century Plant, American Aloe

Family

Asparagaceae

Notes

Introduced plant to 12m tall when flowering. Leaves fleshy, in a basal rosette, 100-200cm long, 150-250mm wide, flat, hairless, margins with spiny teeth, with a sharp pointed spine at the tip. Flowers tubular, yellow or greenish yellow, with 6 lobes, in a many flowered panicle at the top of the flowering stem, which arises from the base of the plant. Each branch of the panicle umbel-like. Family Agavaceae in NSW and SA.

Description and photo (as Agave sp.) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 190

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Agave~americana

Weeds of Australia Biosecurity Queensland Edition description:  http://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/03030800-0b07-490a-8d04-0605030c0f01/media/Html/Agave_americana.htm