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Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.

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Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw. (1812)
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(L.) Haw.
L.
Haw.
1812
73
ICN
species
Furcraea foetida

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foetida

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Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.

Robust perennials not dying after flowering. Trunk short, 0.8-1.3 m × 10 cm. Leaves many in a rosette, 1-2.5 m × 10-20 cm, broadly lanceolate, stiff, flat towards tip, deltoid (in T. S.) towards base, margins with ± regularly spaced, horny spines curved towards leaf-tip, or margins entire; tip pungent and horny. Panicle open, tall, erect, to 10m high, ± 14 cm diam. at base, contracting abruptly to ± 9 cm then tapering gradually, branches glabrous. Flowers 3-4 cm long, pendulous on short pedicels c. 1 cm long, strongly scented, whitish-green, perianth fleshy. Fruit not seen but bulbils freely produced in axils of bracteoles, with leaf-margins spiny or entire.

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Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.

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Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Cook Islands
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Cook Islands
Rarotonga
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Niue

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1 January 2000
10 August 2015
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