Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil and water occasionally to very little. A nice smaller agave for planting at the foreground of a rock or succulent garden or used as a container specimen. It has the stout teeth along the leaf margins that makes it not friendly but on a much smaller scale so less dangerous than larger agaves and is dramatic when backlit by early morning or late afternoon sun!

This slow growing plant has been circulating around for many years in Southern California but has never been readily available and has gone by a number of different names. We have seen the plant labeled as Agave 'Quasimoto', Agave 'Monstrous Dwarf', A. americana aureo-marginata 'Monstrosa' and A. 'Hummel's Dwarf Cornelius' or sometimes just 'Cornelius'. There is some question whether it is even a cultivar of Agave americana but to our knowledge the plant has not bloomed, so this has not been verified. Non-variegated sports of this plant grown by us and by Brian Kemble at the Ruth Bancroft Garden do not look much like Agave americana. The name is also a bit confused; the Huntington Botanic Garden has this plant accessioned as Agave americana 'Marginata Aurea Monstrosa' so we sold it for many years using this name. This plant was pretty rare in the trade but was micropropagated in a laboratory, so became more commonly available. In order to avoid the confusion of having several names we have agreed with several other nurseries marketing this plant to call it Agave 'Cornelius' until such time that another name is determined to be more valid. The notable plantsman Bill Baker called this plant 'Quasimoto' and we honor him and this name by using this as a common name for this plant. We also had white variegated sport of this plant that occurred in our nursery that we called Quasimoto Streaker. 

Information displayed on this page about Agave 'Cornelius' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.