Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Asparagales > Asparagaceae > Furcraea > Furcraea tuberosa

Furcraea tuberosa (female karata)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Drought Tolerance [1]  Medium
Frost Free Days [1]  1 year
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Propagation [1]  Seed
Root Depth [1]  12 inches (30 cm)
Structure [2]  Shrub
Height [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Soil Acidity [1]  Neutral

Predators

Leptonycteris curasoae (southern long-nosed bat)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Population dynamics, reproduction, and diet of the lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris curasoae) in Jalisco, Mexico: implications for conservation, Kathryn E. Stoner, Karla A. O.-Salazar, Roxana C. R.-Fernández and Mauricio Quesada, Biodiversity and Conservation, Volume 12, Number 2, 357-373 (2003)
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0