Agave titanota often oc- curring with green

often oc- curring with green leaved forms

the type locality

also like many species some of the most attractive plants are found growing on private ranch land

Outside of Monterrey in Nuevo Leon is a maze of limestone canyons that fan out of the earth

and often an attractive silvery frosting on the leaves

Agave titanota often oc- curring with greenThis Oaxacan endemic was initially described by Howard Scott Gentry from a single population in a limestone canyon at Rancho Tambor, at about 3200' 4000'. Gentry's guide called the plants 'rabo de len ceniza' or tail of an ash lion. Gentry named the plant for what he described as an alabaster white color, hence the latin 'titanota'. He also speculated that there were likely more populations to be found in the mountains, and in recent years other