生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs to subshrubs, stemless.
• Leaves radical, in rosettes, many, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 30-70 cm long, 4-7.5 cm wide, apex acute to acuminate, attenuate to a slender spine, base obtuse, coriaceous, entire, with fairy coarse curly marginal fibers.
• Flowers numerous, white or creamy white, 5-7 cm in diam. when open, pendulous, paniculate; scape arising from rosette, 1-2.5 m long, erect; perianth 5-7 cm long; segments oblong, 2-3 cm wide, apex obtuse; stamens 6, filaments plumose-pilose; style nearly 1 cm long.
• Capsules thick cylindric, often slightly contracted near middle, 2-4 cm long; seeds flat, black, 5-6 cm long, 0.1-0.2 mm wide.

分布

• 台灣 : introduced into Taiwan in 1920, occasionally cultivated in gardens, somewhat rare.
• 世界 : Native to North America.

參考文獻

• YING, Shao-Shun, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 78. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)