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Agave yucuanensis (Green Bull Agave) - A nice mid green agave that grows to around 3 feet tall by as wide with foot long upright leaves that have broad corneous (horny) tan aging to gray margins connecting the large teeth and base of the terminal spine. When in flower it has a paniculate inflorescence with flowers described as greenish white flushed with reddish to purple tips.
Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil where it will likely require very little irrigation. Cold hardiness is not yet known for this plant so best for now in milder coastal gardens. This is a attractive medium size agave that is reminiscent of greener form of Agave oteroi (A. titanota 'FO-76') and some compare it to what a hybrid between Agave oteroi and Agave horrida would look like.
Agave yucuanensis was discovered on a mountainside in May of 2019 by Jeremy Spath, Julia Etter, Kelly Griffin and Tony Krock in central Oaxaca as they traveled to the type locality of Agave gypsicola near the town of San Juan Teita. These explorers realized it was a plant in Agave section Heteracanthae that includes Agave horrida, A. oteroi, A. ttitanota and A. xylonacantha but otherwise could not identify it. The name "Green Bull" was coined by Tony Krock for this plant's nice green color and because there had been an intimidating bull along their route from the road to get to the plants. Jeremy Spath and Tony Krock returned to the site in January 2023 accompanied by Greg Starr and Gonzalo Juarez. In 2024 Starr and Juarez published the description of this agave as Agave yucuanensis in the Fall 2024 issue of the Journal of the Succulent Society of America. The specific epithet references that the plant was found near the municipality of San Bartolomé Yucuañe in Northern Oaxaca.
Our thanks to Tony and Holly Krock for sharing this nice plant with us in 2021 and for the picture on this page. We sold this plant from 2022 until the final days of our nursery in 2025.
The information displayed on this page about Agave yucuanensis is based on our research conducted about this plant from books in our nursery library as well as from information that is provided by reliable online resources. We also have included our own observations made about it as it grew in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers when we had them in our nursery field. We 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.
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