Agave parryi var truncata?

Hi wantonamara, Ok, Ive never known that J/H was a A. desmitiana, and as you can see I thought the one Stush sent me was a Sanseveria. Anyway Im not very good at the name game so I need to do more research on them and write notes. So the one Stush gave me is one of the A. desmitiana & the 2 nd one is another type of the desmitiana family right? Well Ive had a long day Ill just have me a good nights rest and start over tomorow and google some of these types, thank you for your help. Greg

Definitely a A. montana and I do not think it is of the Baccarat persuasion. I have 11 A montanas. The baccarats are more glaucous in color. The red needles are a looked for characteristic in Aloe Montana. It is a very variable species. Agave gentry grows on the same mountain ranges in mexico and, what I have heard is that they interbreed where there ranges intersect. So many of the Agave Montanas on sale have Agave gentry in the mix. I guess that they are too lazy to walk up further to pick seed. One needs to look at how the leaves recurve slightly and the color. A. Montana "baccarat" has some gentry that shows up in the glaucous coloring. Agave montana grows at a higher altitude than the Agave gentry. Saddly, Most seed for Agaves Montana are collected in the wild. The species has only recently been Identified and cultivated, so there is few or none flowering cultivated specimens. Tissue culture is being done. This last year I went on a mad search for the perfect montana. And I have many forms. Their shape that they will become will not necessarily be evident when they are small. So I am always checking their progress. They will not show red thorns when they are very young either. They start out white when they are in seedling form. I have a funny story. I picked up a tint agave that was sold as a "miniature A. utahensis". I was hoping for an A utahensis elborispina but the leaves looked a little fat and the I said , what the h*ll, and bought it. I stuck it in a Dish garden with small prickly pears from New Mexico and it molted into the fattest leafed red tipped montanna that I have. Everything was a montana last year even the ones That weren't supposed to be. The two species could not be more different. I was somewhat embarrassed that I was "taken" but then I was rewarded with the fat stalwart formed montana and I was very happy. I got 4 Agave utahensis eborispina this spring, and they are definitely what they are advertised to be , so all is well. Better than well. One thing that I noticed is that Agave Montannas have some healthy roots as a characteristic. They are often bigger than the plant, like an iceberg.

The ID is correct. These are frost sensitive so plan accordingly. Mine get damage every year in zone 9b and some years we don't even get below 30F.