Agaves Non Variegated Cultivars

Juniper Level Botanic Garden - An Ex-Situ Conservation Garden

Our Mission is to Collect, Study, Propagate, and Share

As of 2020, JLBG has just over 27,000 taxa of living plants, making the collection one of the most diverse in the world. Fundraising for an operational endowment to preserve the garden is underway, administered by NC State University. If you'd like to help preserve the gardens and plant collections for future generations, you can do so with a tax-deductible contribution at JLBG.org and click on the Donate Link.

At Juniper Level Botanic Garden, part of our mission is to educate and share both plants and information. This photo/informational gallery is devoted to cataloging as many non-variegated century plant cultivars as possible, and credit those who discovered/developed, and introduced them. It is our hope that this can also prevent duplicate use of names and prevent confusion in the trade. In some cases, the originator may have plants for sell or trade.

Nomenclature is always a misunderstood aspect of plant collecting, so we'd like to share a few applicable rules from the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants

1- A cultivar name (always in single quotes) can only be used once per genus.

2- Latinized cultivar names have been prohibited since 1959. These include 'Compacta', Gigantea', 'Rotundifolia', etc. This rule was instituted when it was recognized that there could be dozens of unique compact forms of a single species.

3- Of those Latinized names used prior to 1959, there can still only be one per genus...the first one officially published. Since this is almost impossible to track down with certainly, it is best that all such Latinized names be abandoned.

4-Cultivar names should be nouns in a modern language. 'Big Teeth', 'Crested', 'Ruffled' and not nouns and cannot be used alone as a cultivar name.

Special thanks:

Hans Hansen, who was the first to mass produce variegated agaves by tissue culture...a breakthrough that has allowed more gardeners to acquire agaves at an affordable price, far lower than the exorbitant amounts many of us originally paid for them.

The late Rick Nowakowski of Nature's Curiosity Shop for sharing valuable agave plants, background information, and photos of agaves he both created, and initially distributed.

Stef van Dort of Holland for the tremendous time an effort in sharing images, knowledge, and helping to name previously unnamed cultivars.

All others around the world who have supplied images so that we can all learn.

Information, corrections, and new images are always welcome and can be sent via email to tony@plantdelights.com

Please remember that all images are Copyright property of the photographer and cannot be used for commercial purposed without the permission of the copyright owner. We truly hope you enjoy browsing through the variegated agave plant photo gallery.

Agave albomarginata

Agave albopilosa

Agave 'Aligator'

Agave americana dwarf sport

Agave americana 'Junction'

Agave americana var. expansa

Agave antillarum

Agave antillarum close up

Agave applanata

Agave applanata HBG 73428

Agave asperrima

Agave asperrima flower stalk

Agave asperrima HBG1455

Agave asperrima HBG73429

Agave asperrima in flower

Agave asperrima JLBG-003

Agave asperrima 'McNeal'

Agave asperrima T73-7

Agave 'Atlanta'

Agave 'Awesome'

Agave 'Baby Blue'

Agave 'Blue Blossum'

Agave 'Blue Boy'

Agave 'Blue Glow'

Agave 'Blue Goblet'

Agave 'Blue Torch'

Agave bracteosa 'Calamar'

Agave bracteosa 'Lynn Lowrey'

Agave bracteosa 'Octopussy'

Agave bracteosa 'Squidget'

Agave 'Bronco'

Agave 'Burnt Burgundy'

Agave 'Charlie'

Agave 'Chico'

Agave chrysantha A2AZ-025

Agave colorata 'Silver Chalice'

Agave 'Crazy Horse'

Agave 'Crocodile'

Agave Ed Hummel hybrid

Agave ferdinandi-regis 'Steve's Coral Reef'

Agave filifera JLBG-003

Agave flexispina

Agave flexispina 'Tugboat'

Agave funkiana DBG 1986-407

Agave funkiana 'Rock Band'

Agave gentryi 'Jaws'

Agave 'Green Gene'

Agave 'Hairy Monster'

Agave havardiana x salmiana

Agave havardiana x salmiana clone 2

Agave 'Hombre'

Agave horrida var. perotensis

Agave 'Impressa'

Agave JLBG-029

Agave JLBG-043

Agave 'Kissho Kan II'

Agave lechuguilla

Agave 'Leo'

Agave 'Lime Aide'

Agave 'Little Hairy'

Agave lophantha 80-13

Agave lophantha 82-30

Agave lophantha 'Bandaid'

Agave lophantha 'Bandaid' flower spike

Agave lophantha 'Goldstrike'

Agave lophantha JLBG-002

Agave lophantha 'La Bufa Baby'

Agave lophantha short leaf form

Agave lophantha 'Splendida'

Agave lophantha 'Twister'

Agave lophantha 'Univittata'

Agave 'Mako Shark' -

Agave 'Manuel Flores' -

Agave mckelveyana 'Get Bent'

Agave mckelveyana 'Winter Ice'

Agave 'Mega Tooth'

Agave 'Miel'

Agave mitis 'Silver Anniversary'

Agave montana 'Baccarat'

Agave montana 'Overwhelming'

Agave montana 'Superstar'

Agave montana 'Superstar' 2

Agave 'Moroco'

Agave 'Mr Ripple'

Agave 'Mr. Ripple'

Agave multifilifera dwarf

Agave multifilifera JLBG-002

Agave multifilifera JLBG-003

Agave ocahui JLBG-009

Agave ocahui var. longifolia

Agave ocahui var. longifolia flower spike

Agave ocahui var. ocahui

Agave ovatifolia Giant form

Agave ovatifolia 'Industrial'

Agave pachycentra

Agave palmeri 'Cutty Shark'

Agave palmeri 'Cutty Shark' in bud

Agave palmeri Pinal Co. AZ

Agave parrasana 'Meat Claw'

Agave parrasana 'Meat Claw' 2

Agave parrasana x salmiana

Agave parry ssp. huachucensis 'JC Raulston'

Agave parryi 'BabyTeeth'

Agave parryi hybrid JLBG-003

Agave parryi JC Raulston in bud

Agave parryi JLBG-001

Agave parryi JLBG-003

Agave parryi ssp. huachucensis

Agave parryi ssp. huachucensis 'Ghost'

Agave parryi ssp. neomexicana

Agave parryi ssp. neomexicana close up

Agave parryi ssp. truncata 'Bed of Nails'

Agave parryi x palmeri Sonita Vineyards (Avent)

Agave parviflora ssp. flexiflora

Agave 'Queen'

Agave 'Ruffles'

Agave 'Ruth Bancroft'

Agave rzedowskiana

Agave salmiana 'San Luis Potosi'

Agave salmiana 'Super Wide'

Agave salmiana 'Tehuacan'

Agave salmiana 'Tusculum'

Agave salmiana 'Tusculum' 2

Agave schidigera narrow leaf form

Agave 'Shark Tooth' -

Agave 'Sharkskin' left and Agave 'Sharkskin Shoes' right

Agave 'Sheiba'

Agave 'Silver Shield'

Agave 'Slim Jim'

Agave 'Slim Jim's Brother'

Agave striata flower closeup

Agave striata 'Live Wires'

Agave stricta dwarf Theo form

Agave stricta JLBG-001 dwarf

Agave 'Super Mega Tooth'

Agave Tequilla Sunrise

Agave 'Tiger Tooth'

Agave 'Titan'

Agave titanota 'Black and Blue'

Agave titanota 'Blue Torch'

Agave titanota 'Charlie's Blue'

Agave titanota 'Green Apple'

Agave titanota 'Kyoto'

Agave titanota 'Kyoto' closeup

Agave utahensis hybrid @ Hansen Gdn, MI

Agave victoriae-reginae 'Ilah'

Agave victoriae-reginae 'Nuda'

Agave victoriae-reginae spike opening

Agave vilmoriniana crest monstrose

Agave 'Wicked One'

Agave 'Wierdo'

Agave 'Wild One'

Agave 'Wild Thing'

Agave x gentana (gentryi x montana) JLBG-005

Agave x gentrifolia 'Blue Canoe' (ovatifolia x gentryi)

Agave x glomeruliflora 'Chisos Affair'

Agave x lechuphantha JLBG-17 (lophantha x lechuguilla)

Agave x lechuphantha 'Spine Tingler'

Agave x loferox 'Family Affair'

Agave x loferox 'Hacksaw'

Agave x loferox JLBG-012

Agave x loferox JLBG-013

Agave x loferox JLBG-014

Agave x loferox JLBG-037

Agave x loferox JLBG-045

Agave x nickelima 'Sharkskin Shoes'

Agave x nickuilla 'Pointed Traveler'

Agave x nickuilla 'Pointed Traveler' 2

Agave x nikelima 'Black Boy'

Agave x protamericana 'Abbey Gardens'

Agave x protamericana 'Abbey Gardens' clump

Agave x protamericana 'Bandito'

Agave x protamericana 'Blue Steel'

Agave x protamericana 'Boethe'

Agave x protamericana 'Funky Toes'

Agave x protamericana 'Funky Toes' Gardens, TX (Avent)

Agave x protamericana 'Grey Gator'

Agave x protamericana 'Miquihuana' 89- 6

Agave x protamericana 'Miquihuana Silver'

Agave x protamericana 'Pokey Ghost'

Agave x protamericana 'Silver Surfer'

Agave x protamericana 'Stormy Sieze'

Agave x pseudoferox 'Bellville'

Agave x pseudoferox 'Bellville' 2

Agave x pseudoferox 'Bellville' 3

Agave x pseudoferox 'Green Goblet'

Agave x pseudoferox 'Green Goblet' 2

Agave x pseudoferox 'Hayes Jackson'

Agave x pseudoferox 'Hayes Jackson' clump

Agave x pseudoferox 'Logan Calhoun'

Agave x pumila 'Clusterfest'

Agave x pumila DBG 1965-7792

Agave x pumila DBG 1967-8980

Agave x pumila DBG1965-7792

Agave x striateosa 'Straight and Narrow'

Agave x striateosa 'Straight and Narrow' (striata x bracteosa) (aka JLBG-002)

Agave x striateosa 'String Bean'

Agave 'XXX'

Agave xylonacantha 'Blue Tooth'

Agave xylonocantha JLBG-003