Echinoagave

Echinoagave is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae. It includes 12 species native to Mexico.
The species in genus Echinoagave were formerly placed in genus Agave, and both genera share a rosette habit and terminal spine. Echinoagave species are distinguished by their generally compact hedgehog-like shape, with cylindrical to subcylindrical to flattened leaves with hard, firm, striate-sulcate and serrulate margins. Echinoagave plants are typically polycarpic, flowering multiple times before dying, in contrast to the typically monocarpic Agave species whose rosettes die after flowering.

Species

12 species are accepted.