Agave titanota Agave macroacantha can sucker profusely

Agave macroacantha can sucker profusely by underground rhizomes

Kelly Griffin grew the seed and told me it came from Oaxaca on a trip he did close to 10 years prior

The specific epithet comes from the Greek and is in reference to the plants distinctively large (megalo-) teeth (donta)

Tony Krock &  I guided Greg Starr & Gonzalo Juarez to these plants

the type locality

Agave titanota Agave macroacantha can sucker profuselyThis 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