A preliminary overview of the diversity of species of Agave (Century Plant) as potentially invasive species in the Canary Islands Meise Botanic Garden
The Canary Islands have an extraordinary endemic flora that includes a high number of often tiny succulents that are adapted to the local xeric climate. In recent times, however, the composition of the local succulent flora dramatically changed: some of the native species are at risk and are increasingly replaced by taller, aggressive alien succulents, from families such as Cactaceae and Agavaceae. Agave L. is a New World genus, growing ...