#agave__century_plant__centuryplant__American_aloe  tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
  supertype:  desert_plant__xerophyte__xerophytic_plant__xerophile__xerophilousplant  plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte
  member of:  family_Agavaceae
  subtype:  American_agave__Agave_americana  widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies
  subtype:  sisal__Agave_sisalana  Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope
  subtype:  maguey__cantala__agavecantala  Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine
  subtype:  Agave_atrovirens__maguey  Mexican plant used especially for making pulque the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal
  subtype:  Agave_tequilana  Mexican plant used especially for making tequila
  subtype:  dracaena  often cultivated for the decorative foliage
     subtype:  dragon_tree__Dracaena_draco  tall tree of the Canary Islands; source of dragon's blood
  subtype:  Nolina_microcarpa__bear_grass  stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico
  subtype:  sansevieria__bowstring_hemp__bowstringhemp  grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber
     subtype:  African_bowstring_hemp__African_hemp__Sansevieria_guineensis  bowstring hemp of South Africa
     subtype:  Ceylon_bowstring_hemp__Sansevieria_zeylanica  plant having thick fibrous leaves transversely banded in light and dark green
     subtype:  mother-in-law's_tongue__snake_plant__snakeplant__Sansevieria_trifasciata  stemless plant having narrow rigid leaves often cultivated as a houseplant

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