Maguey Century Cat – Maguey, The Century Plant, Agave americana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_americana
https://www.tequilamatchmaker.com/tequilas/4475-ombligo-de-maguey-reposado
Maguey Century Cat is the Robe Recipe Vendor in Azteca. Wizards must first rescue him during the quest The Fire and the Fury. Ocuhaje Mirror Knife will not allow you to ask the Oracle how to find the Pyramid of the Falling Star until Maguey Century Cat has created a New Day Charm to give the Oracle as a gift.
Agave americana, common names Century Plant, Maguey, or American Aloe, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Mexico and the United States in Texas. It is cultivated worldwide as an ornamental plant, and has been naturalized in many regions, including parts of Southern California, the West Indies, South America, Mediterranean Basin, Africa, Canary Islands, India, China, Thailand, and Australia. Despite the common name “American Aloe”, it is not in the same family as aloe, though it is in the same order, Asparagales.
Although it is called the century plant, it typically lives only 10 to 30 years. It has a spread around 1.8–3.0 m (6–10 ft) with gray-green leaves of 0.9–1.5 m (3–5 ft) long, each with a prickly margin and a heavy spike at the tip that can pierce deeply. Near the end of its life, the plant sends up a tall, branched stalk, laden with yellow blossoms, that may reach a total height up to 8–9 m (25–30 ft).
The leaves yield fibers, known as pita, which are suitable for making rope, nets, bags, sacks, matting, or coarse cloth. They are also used for embroidery of leather in a technique known as piteado. Both pulque and maguey fiber were important to the economy of pre-Columbian Mexico. The Aztecs pulped the leaves of A. americana to create paper.
If the flower stem is cut before flowering, a sweet liquid called aguamiel (“honey water”) gathers in the hollowed heart of the plant. This can be fermented to produce the alcoholic drink called pulque or octli in pre-Columbian Mexico. In the tequila-producing regions of Mexico, agaves are called mezcales. The high-alcohol product of fermented agave distillation is called mezcal; A. americana is one of several agaves used for distillation. A mezcal called tequila is produced from Agave tequilana, commonly called “blue agave”.
In Nahuatl, the literal meaning of the word “MEXICO” is “the navel of the maguey”, or in Spanish, ombligo de maguey.
In a subtle bit of irony, Agave plants are mildly toxic to felines due to the needle-shaped crystals called oxalates.
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