• Family : AGAVACEAE
  (Agave Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : RAJANIGANDHA FAMILY (रजनीगंधा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ASPARAGACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Agave americana L.
• Common name : Century Plant, American Aloe
• Vernacular name : Raam Kanta, Banskeora, Barakanvar, Kantala (Hindi); Rakspatti, Anekattale (Kannada); Aanakaitha, Agavu, Athirakaitha, Eroppakaitha, Kandalachedi, Panam-Kattazha (Malayalam); Murba, Muruga, Barabarasia, Birhot okumari (Oria); Kithanara (Telugu)
• Habit : Shrub
• Comments / notes : Cultivated along fences. Introduced to paleotropics. Flowers upon maturity, last up to several years, where upon the plant dies, but continues to produce suckers or adventitious shoots from the base.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : All districts of Andhra Pradesh
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Davanagare district, Mysuru district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Buldhana district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Cultivated
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• Native : Mexico
• World Distribution : All Tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Agave americana. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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