Talk:Agave

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On December 21, 2006, Agave was linked from The Impulsive Buy., a high-traffic website. All prior and subsequent edits are noted in the revision history.

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Contents 1 Judd 2 Messy para 3 Aloe bloom plant labeled as Agave in bloom? 4 Changes

[edit] Judd

Please have a look at the hidden note in my last edit. If the relevant Judd is on the disambiguation page, please re-instate the link. Deano 16:54, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Messy para

Can someone sort this para out? I tried editing it but gave up because I didn't know what the contributor was saying. So, for the moment. I've taken it out of the article.

However, in May of 2000 the US Food & Drug Administration explicitedly stated in writing that this non Generally Recoginzed As Safe natural health food sweetener was mis branded, mis labeled and not in compliance with code of Federal Regulation Standard for ingredient identity in the USA and indeed refined high fructose hydrolyzed inulin syrup. Many major users of agave syrups or nectars or juices ceased using it as a result. Hydrolyzed high fructose inulin sweeteners (70 to 90 DE) are metabolized in the human Kreb Cycle to fat (adipose tissue) and triglycerides (LDL or bad cholesterol inducing).

Thanks - Adrian Pingstone 09:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aloe bloom plant labeled as Agave in bloom?

Removed the 3rd image, which was of an aloe plant in bloom, but labeled as an agave plant in bloom. Obvious error, and seeing as how the 2 plants look nothing alike, it is hard to believe it passed this long. This was the link :

HaeSuse 10:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

No, the image is misnamed, or it's a very strangely mutated aloe :-) - what aloe has multi-meter flowering stems with the flowers in panicles? The confusion is probably as aloe explains, that Agave americana often called an aloe (and indeed the appearance of the panicles is a pretty good match for A. americana. Stan 19:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Changes

I don't think moving all the images into a gallery is an improvement, nor is deleting text about the best-known species without moving it to its article, but I'm willing to entertain discussion before reverting. Stan 21:24, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Stan, the pictures are easier to find in the gallery (which can also include pictures of common cultivars etc). It is unpleasant to have to scroll down the very long list of species (again, in my opinion) in order to find a picture that may or may not be next to the name of that species. It's also difficult to house pictures of a larger number of Agave species in said listing - thus my preference for it. I disagree re: the best known species - certainly in Australia the most commonly grown species is Agave attenuata - though I think perhaps it would be best to include links to these common species in the introductory ramble. Thoughts? MidgleyDJ 21:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I added the three most commonly grown species (in Australia - I cant speak for elsewhere) to the preamble (americana, angustifolia & attenuata). Hopefully that helps your concerns Stan re: linking to the most commonly grown species. I've also added new pictures of cultivars and species to the gallery section - which given the length of the listing of species I still think is the tidier option. MidgleyDJ 22:00, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

To me the purpose of pictures alongside the species list is more as a sample of the variation (and to fill up blank space :-) ), rather than a search mechanism - we have quite a few agave pictures in all (I just added about ten more to commons just a couple days ago for example), and a useful visual index is going to need to be much much bigger than the handful of images that have found their way into this article. On species descriptions, if A. attenuata is common in Oz, then it deserves a sentence or two of description here too, enough to interest readers in following the link. Full species list is good for completeness, but they don't help the reader distinguish what is found in every backyard from the obscure endemic that hasn't had three words written about it since it was described :-) , so (IMHO) genus articles should have a section prior that highlights the most interesting species, at least mentioning why they are the most notable. Stan 22:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

You know, that species list is about at the breakeven point for separating into its own page. Stan 22:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Separation of the list sounds like a good idea to me. I'm in the process of creating a "commonly grown species" section (daggy name, I know) MidgleyDJ 22:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)