Agave palmeri

An evergreen succulent, forming a stiff rosette of pale, slightly grey-green leaves, with small, closely spaced teeth along the edges and red-brown spines to 6cm long at the tip. Slow growing, but can reach up to 1.2m high at maturity. Mature plants may produce a tall spike with branching clusters of small, pale yellow-green flowers, tinted red in bud, after which the central rosette dies off