agave>>>>>aloe !!!!

surprise...I went to check an agave leaf (which now I think it is aloe!!!) which I had planted not sure what to expect, and it has rooted, not from the bottom,as I would have imagined, but from the side, where there was a little cut...nice!


here is one of my "excellent" pictures for you...




[ 06. November 2007, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: miraflores ]

 

Are you sure its an agave mira.

Could it be Mother-in-laws tongue, Sansevieria

 

I agree Pete. David.

 

Yep looks like my mother-in-laws tongue :D

 

Sorry sorry sorry !! I meant to say : aloe , as the lady which has sent it to me has sent also some agave, and I am just learning the difference...

Definitely not sansevieria, as the leaves are much thinner, but of course one could not possibly find out from the picture...

Here is an aloe vera pic from flickr...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cath/5918390/

 

Good evening, mira, my dear friend. I haven't said anything here because ...

1. I did not think it was an Agave.
2. I did not think it was a Sansevieria.
3. It doesn't look like my Aloe ... and it doesn't look like the link you put up either.

Do you know if it is the Aloe that they use for medicinal purposes? If so, is it spikey on the edges of the blade?

We must get your photography improved as some of us older folk have failing eyesight.

 

You can be really helpful, ......sometimes LoL. :D :D :D

 

I've not tried growing Aloes from leaf cuttings, I didn't think it worked, and I dont think it works with agave.
It works with sedums, and sanseveria which is why that was my first guess, along with the leaf patterning that is.

 

pete, you know I try to do my best to be helpful.

You can do Aloe by cuttings but obviously the conditions have to be perfect, otherwise offsets are the option.

It's strange, mine is an offset from the IoW and it's been here in my rockery for six years now and flowers beautifully with stems five foot tall ... but I've never had an offset. Explain that one?

 

It thinks its dying. :D

 

Productive and dying, pete? Think again.

 

Just joking, although lots of plants flower really well if they think they are dying, as you probably already know.
Perhaps the stronger sun and heat tends to make it reproduce by seed rather than vegetivly.
In other words its growing, harder.

 

anyway, i am gonna ask the lady, so we should know by sure...

 

Just a few sanseiveria could be one of them,
Sansevieria aethiopica
Sansevieria angustiflora
Sansevieria arborescens
Sansevieria aubrytiana
Sansevieria braunii
Sansevieria canaliculata
Sansevieria concinna
Sansevieria cylindrica
Sansevieria dawei
Sansevieria deserti
Sansevieria dooneri
Sansevieria ehrenbergii
Sansevieria fasciata
Sansevieria fischeri
Sansevieria francisii
Sansevieria gracilis
Sansevieria grandicuspis
Sansevieria grandis
Sansevieria hahnii
Sansevieria horwoodii
Sansevieria humiflora
Sansevieria hyacinthoides
Sansevieria intermedia
Sansevieria kirkii
Sansevieria liberica
Sansevieria longiflora
Sansevieria metallica
Sansevieria masoniana
Sansevieria parva
Sansevieria patens
Sansevieria phillipsiae
Sansevieria pinguicula
Sansevieria raffillii
Sansevieria roxburghiana
Sansevieria senegambica
Sansevieria singularis
Sansevieria stuckyi
Sansevieria subspicata
Sansevieria suffruticosa
Sansevieria trifasciata
Sansevieria zeylanica

 

Excellent, walnut ... a particular one your favourite or choice for this mystery plant? It's probably one of those rather than Agaves ro Aloes.