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Agave americana L.

[ Family : Agavaceae (Amaryllidaceae) ]
[ Synonyms : Agave altissima Zumagl.; Agave communis Gaterau ; Agave complicata Trel. ex Ochot. ; Agave felina Trel.; Agave milleri Haw.; Agave subtilis Trel.; Agave variegata Steud. ; Agave zonata Trel. ]
[ Common name (Local) : Bans keora, Hatiibar ]
Name in other Languages :
  • Bengali : Bans keora, Kantala, Bilati anaras | Sanskrit : Kalakantala | Hindi : Bans keora, Kantala, Bara kanwar | Tribal : Hatiibar ? | English : American aloe, Century plant, Maguey | Other Languages : Nathukaita, Panamkattazha (Mal.), Anakuttilai (Tam.)
    • [ Trade Name : Kantala ]
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Plant Characteristics :
Habit : Acaulescent rhizom-atous shrub
Habitat & Ecology : Terrestrial, Xerophyte, wild.Xerophyte
Occurrence : Throughout south-west Bengal (red laterite region)

Status : Frequent in the area
Botanical Character : Stout, shrubby, rhizomatous perennial herb with short aerial stem. Leaves densely crowded in massive rosettes, large, simple, alternate, thick, fleshy, coated with wax, tips spiny. Leaf-edges distinctly sinuate and bearing mostly reflexed spines on the eminences. Flowering rare, gigantic racemose inflorescence with ultimate brances of few-flowered cymes. Flowers bisexual; perianth more or less funnel-shaped, stamens inserted at the base of the petals; ovary fleshy, 3-locular; ovules numerous in each cell. Fruit ovoid globose or cylindrical coriaceous erect-beaked capsule; seeds many.

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Flowering & Fruiting : October--March
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Root, Leaf

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Remarks
Native of Mexico and Central America

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