Maguey

Any of several species of Agave such as the century plant Agave Americana a plant requiring many years to come to maturity and blossoming only once before dying and the Agave atrovirens a Mexican plant used especially for making pulque the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal and the cantala Agave cantala a Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine See Agave