Re: hummel

I may have taken a photo of this Hummel agave at the AZ-Sonora Desert 
Museum.  When the pics are developed I'll know!  If it is being propagated 
from seeds due to lack of offsetting ability, then of course all such plants 
will be a grex and thus exhibit much variability, if only on a certain 
theme.

>From: Ken K <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [AGAVACEAE] hummel
>Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:37:11 -0800
>
>Mary,
>
>I recently acquired an Agave hybrid labeled A. (attenuata x scabra?)
>at a nursery in southern California. It is quite different in
>appearance from the images referenced so far as Agave 'Edward Hummel'.
>Part of the problem may be that most of the Hummel hybrids pictured on
>the internet appear to have been grown under cover, and lack the
>compact growth of a specimen grown in the open ground. Dry Garden in
>nearby Berkeley has one plant of the cultivar known as Agave 'Edward
>Hummel' and I'll get a picture this week if I can get over there. The
>SoCal (attenuata x scabra?) hybrid I recently acquired has an entirely
>different look to it, with thinner, softer leaves, with finely saw
>toothed red edges. Images of both to follow in a few days.
>
>Edward Hummel must have been a prolific hybridizer - the nursery where
>I obtained the Agave hybrid (also the source of the Berkeley Agave
>'Edward Hummel' plant) also had Hummel hybrid Haemanthus albiflos
>bulbs for sale. I believe he also worked with fancy Echeveria.
>
>It is entirely possible that because these Agave are hybrids,
>divisions of several similar, but not identical siblings could be in
>circulation.
>
>Ken
>East S.F. Bay Area, Ca.
>USDA Zone 9
>-2°C to 38°C
>
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