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Agave parryi 'J.C. Raulston'
J.C.'s Legacy! Tony Avent, of Plant Delights Nursery, did his research and found out the following: “We tracked this clone back to a plant that came from J.C.'s 1979 trip to California's Strybing Arboretum. Strybing obtained their plant from California professor Jack Napton in 1971. This special clone forms large symmetrical 2' tall x 3' wide rosettes that seems particularly well-adapted to winters in wet, humid climates. It is slow to offset compared with many forms, which makes propagation more of a challenge. This clone needed a name and we could not think of anything better than to name it after the late Dr. J.C. Raulston.” I will add that J.C. did not believe in any soil amending to accommodate better drainage. His belief was that plants should be trialed in unaltered landscape conditions. Thus, this one that survived is a natural candidate for tissue culture because of its shyness in offsetting.
Notes and observations about this plant
- Pups and Tissue Culture by Yucca Do Staff
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A good point Kelly. Here's why you may be seeing pups.
The plants of Agave parryi 'J.C. Raulston' that we offer are propagated by tissue culture. Tissue culture can often cause anomalies in the traits of a given cultivar. Sometimes it causes plants to go into juvenile phases, inducing puping or other uncharacteristic traits not seen in adult plants. The uncharacteristic effects are typically temporary and as a plant grows and ages the uncharacteristic traits cease to occur. It is often difficult or impossible to predict how a plant will react out of tissue culture and it is not uncommon to have some odd behaviors occur, in young plants propagated by tissue culture, that are not indicative of a plants mature phase. (Posted on 7/11/10) - Observations by Kelley Schroedl
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Put in 5 tiny Raulston last year. Have had 4 pups so far. The clay soil was amended with lots of compost and is loose.
Chose this agave because of the supposed infrequency of offsets--suprise! (Posted on 7/10/10) - Note by Yucca Do Staff
- We originally listed this plant as Agave parryi var huachucensis but we are unsure of its varietal status. (Posted on 2/24/10)