Agave plant grow and care – succulent leaf plant of the genus Agave also known as Century plant, Agave plant perennial evergreen plant, the plant dies after the bloom and the young plant grow instead and also used as ornamental and can be edible or medical plant also drought tolerant, can grow in desert, subtropical, mediterranean, tropic or temperate climate and growing in hardiness zone 6+, with the right care overwinter can grow in hardiness zone 5.
Agave plant edible leaves, flower, fruits (heart)
Leaves and plant
Leaves the color green, green-bluish, red, green with yellow, green-gray, green with white, green with orange, the leaves are fleshy, the leaves grow in rosettes structure, the leaf spiny pointed in the spear shape, in Blue agave and Agave americana leaves edible and basal rosettes also edible, to eat the basal rosettes need to wait at least 5 years.
Flower color is yellow or pink, the flowers grow as umbel on stalk, some species are flowers and the stalk and also the buds are edible.
Agave fruit are not edible but mostly the fruits mean the heart of the plant
Heart of the plant can be edible in some species, round area in the base of the leaves that can be eaten, need to cut the leaves and cut it in the base of the plant, in order to eat