Agave polyacantha

Agave polyacantha (many-spined) is a species of Agave.

Background
Flower greenish-yellow, 1 1/2in. to 2in. long; flowering-stem 8ft. to 12ft high, including the dense spike, which is 3ft. to 4ft. long. leaves about thirty in a sessile rosette, oblanceolate-spathulate, rigid, 1ft. to 2ft. long, 2 1/2in. to 5in. broad above the middle, bright green, slightly glaucous when young; terminal spine dark brown, pungent, 1/2in. to 3/4in. long; side prickles crowded, deltoid, dark chestnut brown, irregular, 1 1/2in. or 1/8in. long, all sub-patent. Mexico, 1800. SYNS. A. uncinata, A. xalapensis.