Agave pseudoferox Bellville Spain This unique giant black-eyed Susan

This unique giant black-eyed Susan has a deciduous basal rosette of waxy blue foliage resembling a collard (that's sort of like a cabbage to you northern folks)

but each leaf is quite unique in its unusual quadrangular shape and also in the dramatic

before disappearing in the heat of summer

Virginia's Walter and Sybil Przypek hit the jackpot with this stunning

Once the plants are established

Agave pseudoferox Bellville Spain This unique giant black-eyed SusanAgave 'Bellville' is a fascinating hybrid of what we think is Agave americana x Agave asperrima x Agave gentryi. We've given this hybrid the name Agave x pseudoferox, which applies to all similar hybrids that circulate in the trade as Agave salmiana var. ferox (despite flowering plants not keying out to this species). Agave 'Bellville', which grows around Bellville, Texas, (near Austin) was shared with us by our friends at Yucca Do Nursery. The