Agave protamericana Funky Toes Patterned Foliage Louisiana (near the Texas border)

Louisiana (near the Texas border)

I first spotted this fascinating deer-resistant Eurasian-native bog plant in England decades ago at the garden of the introducer

This glad perhaps had a name in a former life

or a bicolor combination thereof

Agave protamericana Funky Toes Patterned Foliage Louisiana (near the Texas border)Agave x protamericana 'Funky Toes' is one of many wonderful Yucca Do Nursery introductions, discovered in the mountains of northern Mexico. Agave 'Funky Toes' is a natural hybrid of Agave americana x Agave asperrima (scabra) that forms a 4' tall x 5' wide specimen with very broad and twisty, lightly scabrous, blue green leaves with huge teeth and widely spaced cavities between each one. Unlike people, big tooth cavities are desirable in agaves. The