Agave can be perennial or monocarpic succulents, forming rosettes of usually rigid, fleshy, spiny-edged leaves, with funnel-shaped flowers in racemes or panicles often much taller than the rosettes
'Mediopicta' is a succulent evergreen perennial to 1.5m, forming rosettes of spiny-edged, grey-green leaves, each with a central, creamy-yellow stripe. Rarely flowers