Agave victoriae reginae ssp swobodae Thrillers on what is almost certainly

on what is almost certainly a sterile hybrid

The plants from this population have longer than normal leaves

green and purple mottled

Since this is a sterile hybrid

each topped with narrow tubular flowers speckled maroon and green

Agave victoriae reginae ssp swobodae Thrillers on what is almost certainlyAgave victoriae reginae ssp. swobodae is one of the new taxa of the Mexican Queen Victoria agave, named after 2011 DNA studies show five distinctly different genetic groups residing under the same name and we can't have that! First discovered by Czech seed collector, Josef Halda in 2000, Agave victoriae reginae ssp. swobodae comes from the Sierra Madre escarpments that run through southern Coahuila and northeastern Durango. Here, it resides on