Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber.
1The maguey, or American aloe, is the most abundant and widely distributed of the native plants.
2The plant called American aloe, Agave americana (c.v.), belongs to a different order, viz.
3Agave americana, Century plant or American aloe.
4It was the Agave, or American Aloe, sometimes called the Century Plant, because it blooms but once in a lifetime.
5These poles were the flower stalks of the great American aloe, or maguey-plant-theonly thing resembling wood that grew near.
6By the same token the well-known " American aloe," or century plant, is not an aloe, but an agave.
7Another tropical plant, seen at the North in greenhouses, but here growing ten feet high in the open air, is the American aloe or century-plant.
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