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Agave gypsophila is a small, narrow-range Mexican agave from Guerrero that grows on gypsum soils. Plants sold under this name are mostly the closely related Agave pablocarrilloi, so care is much the same for both.
Agave gypsophila (common names – gypsum century plant, blue wave agave) is a species of plant in the Asparagaceae family and is endemic to the Mexican state of Guerrero. The specific epithet, gypsophila, means gypsum loving.
Agave gypsophila was described by Howard Scott Gentry in 1982. In 2013, J. Antonio Vazquez-Garcıa, et al. proposed a narrower circumscription of Agave gypsophila based on both ecological and morphological characteristics. The Agave gypsophila sens. lat. (in the broad sense) of Howard Scott Gentry was divided into five species: Agave abisaii, A. andreae, A. gypsophila sens. strict. (in the strict sense), A. kristenii and A. pablocarrillioi. All five species are narrow range endemics in south west Mexico.
The plants cultivated around the world as Agave gypsophila are considered to be mostly Agave pablocarrilloi. The photographs on this page are most probably images of Agave pablocarrilloi.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agave gypsophila by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
