Agave montana or purple blooms

or purple blooms

Approximately 50 miles South of Mexico City in the state of Morelos is an outcropping of lava fields that provide the substrate for Agave horrida

There are two distinct forms

shawii from Baja California x A

Agave montana or purple bloomsIn 1996 Botanist Jose Angel Villareal described this high altitude montane agave. Prior to this it was known as Agave macroculmis along with Agave gentryi. This robust agave is truly one of the most awesome in the genus. Occuring above 8500' with the most dense of the population around 9 10,000'. Along with A. atrovirens in Puebla & Oaxaca and Agave mitis these three agave have to be the highest altitude agave. Growing amongst pines in the states of