Agave is a genus of monocots native to the hot and arid regions of the Americas, although some Agave species are native to tropical areas of South America.
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10 Facts About Agave
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Agave now includes species formerly placed in a number of other genera, such as Manfreda, ×Mangave, Polianthes and Prochnyanthes.
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Some Agave species are known by the common name "century plant".
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Succulent leaves of most Agave species have sharp marginal teeth, an extremely sharp terminal spine, and are very fibrous inside.
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Agave vilmoriniana produces hundreds of pups on its bloom stalk.
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Genus Agave was erected by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, initially with four species.
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When this system was superseded by the APG III system in 2009, the Agavaceae were subsumed into the expanded family Asparagaceae, and Agave was treated as one of 18 genera in the subfamily Agavoideae, a position retained in the APG IV system of 2016.
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Traditionally, the genus Agave was circumscribed to be composed of about 166 species.
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In some of the older classifications, Agave was divided into two subgenera, Agave and Littaea, based on the form of the inflorescence.
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Agave can be used as the raw material for industrial production of fructans as a prebiotic dietary fiber.
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