It has many nicknames, such as thousand year old orchid. It is perennial and can keep green all the year round. It is a agave family. Its roots are prostrate on the ground and there is no stem. It can grow to about 1 meter in general. The leaves are clustered and upright. They are relatively thick. There are dark green stripes on both sides of the leaves, which are wavy and irregular, like the tail of a tiger. So it's called this name. Its scape can grow to 80 cm, the flowers are relatively small, generally white or light green, fragrant, many flowers gather into a bunch, one to three clusters around the flower axis, but generally planted at home, it is difficult to see its long flowers, generally appreciate its leaves.
This kind of flower is also the agave family. It is also a perennial, relatively large plant, which can keep green all year round. It's also called the Dragon tongue palm and so on. It comes from Mexico. Because its leaves are relatively firm and won't wither and yellow all year round, it can be seen in many gardens in the South and used for decoration. It is often planted in greenhouses in the Yangtze River and its north. It likes places with good drainage effect and rich and wet soil. Even in Mexico, it usually has to plant for decades before it can grow flowers. When the flowers open, it will die. Only when the different flowers pollinate it can it bear fruit
1. The simplest way is to look at their forms. The leaves of the latter grow around the stem, and then extend outwards, showing the shape of a lotus seed as a whole. The former part of the ground is no stem, leaves are directly on the ground, is the state of vertical growth, the overall shape is a bundle.
2. The former grows upward, but most plants of the same subject grow in a fan shape, so the leaves of Agave radiate like flowers.
3. The new leaves of the latter are yellow green, and the new leaves of the former are darker than those of the latter. And the former is just like its name. It looks like the tail of a tiger. There are some dark green patterns on it. It can only grow a new leaf a year. The new leaves of the latter grow faster. It only takes one or two months to grow into a rosette shape.
