Agave mitis Mart.

Mitis Agave, Mitis Century Plant

Climate known 47 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Agave mitis is a plant species native to the Mexican states of Hidalgo, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosí, referred to as Agave celsii in many publications.

Text from Wikipedia, “Agave mitis”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Agave

Agave is a genus of monocots native to the arid regions of the Americas. The genus is primarily known for its succulent and xerophytic species that typically form large rosettes of strong, fleshy leaves.

Text from Wikipedia, “Agave”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Asparagaceae

Described by

Mart.

Native to

Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast

Wild records

259 in range· 109 open

At a glance

Warmest month

26°C

May, mean day; nights 14 °C (CHELSA)

Rain

820mm/yr

7 wet months · peak Sep 168 mm (CHELSA)

Light

25–42DLI

mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)

In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Agave, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: a summer growing season, June to October in the northern hemisphere (June to October at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 820 mm a year, wettest September at 168 mm, driest December at 14 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 25 to 42 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 0.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Agave albicans Jacobi; Agave albicans var. ctenophora Trel.; Agave albicans var. mediopicta Trel.; Agave bollii A.Terracc.; Agave bollii var. celsii (Hook.) A.Terracc. and 36 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Agave, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, June to October in the northern hemisphere (June to October at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (630 mm of 820 mm) falls in June to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 18.9 °C against a yearly mean of 17.1 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to April.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 820 mm a year, wettest September at 168 mm, driest December at 14 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

820 mm a year at the habitat, 630 mm of it June to October. Wettest month September at 168 mm, driest December at 14 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 548 mm to 1778 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 25 to 42 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 25 to 42 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 22, the highest 90th-percentile month 45).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 0.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 0.1 °C, the absolute minimum -4.9 °C, about 3 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.7 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 7.1 °C in January (across the envelope cells 3.7 °C to 11.2 °C), warmest day 25.9 °C in May (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 0.1 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 68% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 114 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale

Figures by month

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day °C	19 / 16–22	21 / 17–24	24 / 20–26	26 / 22–28	26 / 22–29	25 / 21–29	23 / 20–27	24 / 20–28	22 / 19–26	22 / 18–25	21 / 17–24	19 / 16–22
Night °C	7 / 4–11	8 / 5–12	10 / 6–14	12 / 8–16	14 / 11–19	15 / 11–20	15 / 11–19	15 / 11–19	14 / 11–19	12 / 9–17	10 / 6–14	8 / 4–12
Rain mm	22 / 14–46	16 / 12–42	17 / 10–39	36 / 24–74	64 / 42–129	127 / 78–252	129 / 95–306	128 / 82–239	168 / 95–339	78 / 45–177	21 / 12–70	14 / 8–47
DLI	26 / 22–30	31 / 27–36	37 / 32–41	41 / 37–45	42 / 39–45	39 / 36–42	38 / 35–42	38 / 36–41	32 / 29–35	30 / 27–33	27 / 24–31	25 / 22–29
RH %	61 / 53–67	60 / 52–66	58 / 50–64	59 / 51–64	61 / 55–67	65 / 60–70	67 / 61–72	66 / 61–70	68 / 63–72	66 / 61–70	62 / 56–68	61 / 54–67

Each figure is the median across the 114 grid cells holding the 251 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1320:1599 (23.975, -100.025). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -4.9 °C, 1st-percentile night 0.1 °C, 99th-percentile day 35.7 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 114 distinct grid cells holding the 251 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1320:1599 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 24.00_-100.000, lapse-corrected -175 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1637 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeMexico Central, Mexico Northeast

Kew's description“succulent subshrub or epiphyte” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker21.149, -99.618 · in the densest population, 188 records (73% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 259 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 109 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 10 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 259 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Juan Cruzado Cortés, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) Sandino Guerrero, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Agave mitis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

El endemismo en las Liliopsida mexicanas

Adolfo Espejo‐Serna (2017) · Acta Botanica Mexicana

A review ofAgave mitis(Asparagaceae/Agavaceae)

Joachim Thiede (2016) · Bradleya

The first record of Agave celsii var. albicans (Agavaceae), a Mexican plant, in South Africa

Gideon F. Smith, E. M. A. Steyn (2002) · South African Journal of Botany

Plethora of plants – collections of the Botanical Garden, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (2): Glasshouse succulents

Dubravka Sandev, Darko Mihelj, Sanja Kovačić (2018) · Natura Croatica

Revisión sistemática para el conocimiento de la biodiversidad mexicana: Los agaves de Hidalgo

Mario Adolfo García-Montes, Carmen Julia Figueredo-Urbina, Pablo Octavio‐Aguilar (2024) · Revista Chapingo serie ciencias forestales y del ambiente (en línea)/Revista Chapingo serie ciencias forestales y del ambiente

Aspectos florísticos e atributos quali-quantitativos da vegetação da Praça Central do bairro Vila Permanente em Tucuruí- PA

Sandro Dan Tatagiba, Priscila Silva Dos Santos, Ana Beatriz da Silva Bulhões, Anny Caroline Sanches Veiga (2022) · Scientific Electronic Archives

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