University Of Arizona Press Agaves of continental north america, paperback/howard scott gentry

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This is an indispensable guide to agaves.

The uses of agaves are as many as the arts of man have found it convenient to devise.

At least two races of man have invaded Agaveland during the last ten to fifteen thousand years, where, with the help of agaves, they contrived several successive civilizations.

The region of greatest use development is Mesoamerica.

Here the great genetic diversity in a genus rich in use potential came into the hands of several peoples who developed the main agricultu.