What is Plant of Agave

Plant which gets the Agave Nectar/ Agave Syrup

The Agave is a plant that belongs to the family of the maguey, of  bluish green color, whose usable part for the elaboration of the tequila is pineapple or agave head.
In a language of the Caribbean, agave was the name that the native ones gave to the plants of sábila or aloe; when the Spaniards arrived at the Antilles in century XVI, knew the plant and made the name to all the others extensive of similar form that found to their passage by the Americas. Thus he was as more than 400 varieties of amarilidáceas plants magueyes were called.

The agave is profiteer among others things in:
Like paper
Top of pencas like: Nails, striker pins, needles
Juice or liquor, of which wine becomes vinegar, honey, sugar.
Maguey is a word that comes from the Antilles
The Agave isn’t just from Mexico, it also burns other countries, but the world knows and identifies the agave like icon from our country with the culture, landscapes and of course the people.
For the Maya civilization the agave represents Gold in a Plant, Green Gold, because they get diversity of products of the plant. The Agave mystic plant, derivates and quality and organic products like, foods, threads, needles to sew, footwear, ceilings for houses, clothes, nails, striker pins, arms military, paper, among others objects.
The plant of the blue agave embellishes the Mexican landscape with its pointed leaves. In different places from Mexico different alcoholic drinks are obtained that they receive the generic name of mezcal and take the last name from the population where they are born. Most famous of all he is mezcal of Tequila.

Only one region of approximately 209 km2s in the state of Jalisco meets the best conditions, for better reproduction of the blue agave tequilana Weber: the famous region of Tequila.
Its growth is very slow, the maturation delays of 8 to 10 years and bloom only once emitting a long stem of almost 10 ms of height that is born from the center of the rosette, towards half of the stem arise ramifications with numerous groups from tubular flowers. The plant dies after developing the fruit but generally it produces sprouts in his base.