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Fun article! I love asparagus & tequila. Never would have imagined agave was in the same family of plants!
by 40four 8y ago
Fun article! I love asparagus & tequila. Never would have imagined agave was in the same family of plants!
- taejo 8y agoThe monocots are a huge clade, making up 23% of all angiosperm (flowering plant) species. Asparagus and agave are related to each other just as much as they are to grasses and bananas. It's like saying snakes and humans are related to each other. Usually when we say two plants are related we mean something like they're in the same family.
- 40four 8y agoI see what your saying, but the article says they ARE in the same family, Asparagaceae. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagus
- taejo 8y agoAh, you're right. I missed the one mention of Asparagacae and was mislead by the (now clearly irrelevant) discussion of monocots.