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Agave utahensis discreta

Perennial

HomePerennialAgave utahensis discreta

Dry stony limestone slopes, 1000 – 1500 metres.

Family: Agavaceae
Height: 4 m / 14 ft
Sun
Light, Medium Soil
Dry to Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 3 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 1 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Century Plant Agave utahensis discreta native habitat is Dry stony limestone slopes, 1000 - 1500 metres.

Edible Uses

The heart of the plant is very rich in saccharine matter and can be eaten when baked. Sweet and delicious, but rather fibrous. It is partly below ground. Can be dried for future use or soaked in water to produce a flavourful beverage. Seed - ground into a flour. Flower stalk - roasted. Root - cooked. Sap from the cut flowering stems is used as a syrup. The sap can also be tapped by boring a hole into the middle of the plant at the base of the flowering stem. It can be fermented into 'Mescal', a very potent alcoholic drink.

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