A rather hardy agava from Mexico and the neighbouring states of the USA. It produces a rosette with a diameter up to one meter and once in its lifetime a flower stalk that reaches up to three meters. It is used to gain ixtle fiber, that can be used for brushes and the like. It is a home in dry highlands where it experiences temperatures below freezing point in many nights. In Central Europe it is hardy on condition it can be kept dry during winter. We keep our plants in a rised bed under the awning of a barn. What we offer here are two year old seedlings.