Agave and Century Plants - the same thing? and Hordeum vulgare (6 row barley)

Agave and Century Plants - the same thing?

Wikipedia says that agave and century plants are the same plant, called by a different name. However, the picture doesn't look like a century plant. Is there more than one kind of century plant, or is it a different veriety of agave? Are these two plants the same thing?


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Answer by Lea
Apparently 'Century Plant' is a broad term for all genus and species of Agave plant so that even if the species looks different,they are all 'century plants'

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Hordeum vulgare (6 row barley)


The inflorescence of six row barley includes three rows of seed bearing florets on each side (corresponding the three spikelets per node and spikelets alternating along opposite sides of the rachis). Note the aborted awns on the lower portion of one row of florets, which suggests the beardless (awnless) cultivar.

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