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succulent agave

Agave victoria reginae

Photo by arlanda
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Description:

Pure Mathematics

Habitat:

At the Real Jardin Botánico de Madrid

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Comments (13)
arlanda
Thanks craigwilliams, you are right, probbably some kind of agve, but I did not find it yet
craigwilliams
This is beautiful and it is a succulent with a similar strategey for coping with drought but it's not a Cactus. They all belong to the family Cactaceae: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus A lot of the plants confused with Cacti are succulent Euphorbia, but in this case it looks most like an Agave species. They tend to bear the imprint of the leaves that were adjacent to them in the central bud after they have developed fully, a really beautiful traight
arlanda
Added to Life and Mathematics mission
arlanda
Yes Little Rex, There is a lot of maths in life and a lot of beauty in maths
Little Rex
Utterly amazing... The beauty of math in life.

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PublishedFebruary 22, 2012

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