Agave desmettiana Desert Sunset Caesalpinia At the top of each

At the top of each stalk are 2-3" wide

red-backed leaves

The stalks are topped

It's so similar that we can't really tell it apart

Agave desmettiana Desert Sunset Caesalpinia At the top of eachThe year was 2008 I was walking through the Home Depot parking lot in Phoenix, Arizona, gazing at the median strip plantings of yellow edged Agave desmettiana, when I spied one plant that stood out from the others. The mutated plant had much wider than normal golden yellow margins surrounding each soft, fleshy green leaf. I returned home with a pup which produced a slowly offsetting specimen to 3' tall x 3' wide that we are pleased to finally