A.B Originals

How a Cultivar Is Made

We cross two of our best variegated agaves and sow the seed. Most seedlings come out plain green. A few carry stripes or coloured edges, and only the ones that keep that colour as they grow are kept.

A seedling that stays stable gets a name and a record of its parents. From then on, every pup it makes is that cultivar.

Because each plant makes only a few pups a year, A.B Originals are released in small batches. Collectors on the waitlist hear first.

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Variegation Terms We Use

Marginata

Cream or yellow stripes along the leaf edges, green in the middle.

Mediopicta

A cream or white stripe down the centre of the leaf, green edges.

Striata

Many fine stripes running the length of the leaf.

Pup

A young plant that grows from the base of the mother plant. It carries the same variegation.