Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
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Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw. (1812)
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
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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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1 January 2000
10 August 2015