Agave schidigera

Agave schidigera (spine-bearing) is a species of Agave.

Background
Flower almost identical with ''[[Agave filifera|A.  filifera]]''. leaves fifty to eighty in a dense sessile rosette, stiff, ensiform, 12in. to 15in. long, 3/4in. to 1in. broad at the middle, similar in colour and texture to those of A. filifera, but the  grey marginal border, and splitting off into flat shavings, not mere threads.