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Variegated Mauritius Hemp
Furcraea foetida ‘Variegata’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Supplied in 400mm
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Variegated Mauritius Hemp - Furcraea foetida ‘Variegata’
This is the bold cream-and-green rosette that people usually mistake for a variegated agave, and the difference matters. Furcraea foetida ‘Variegata’ carries broad, softly arching leaves with smooth margins rather than the hooked spines an agave carries, so it can sit beside a path or a pool without being a hazard. The colouring is genuinely luminous in low sun, which is why it is used where a planting needs a light-toned focal point rather than another grey succulent.
Why Variegated Mauritius Hemp
Bright Variegation: Wide creamy-yellow margins against mid green lift shaded corners and dark walls without any flowering.
Smooth Leaf Edges: Unlike agaves it has essentially unarmed margins, making it far safer near paving, seating and pool surrounds.
Coastal and Sandy Sites: It performs in sand and salt air where most feature plants need constant amendment.
Low Water Demand: Established rosettes hold their form through long dry periods with occasional deep watering.
Self-Renewing: After many years the rosette throws a towering flower panicle and then dies, leaving plantlets that carry the planting forward.
Ideal Applications
Poolside Planting: Spineless leaves and minimal litter make it one of the safer bold-form choices next to water.
Coastal Courtyards: Reads as tropical while tolerating exposed, sandy, salt-affected ground.
Mass Planting on Slopes: Repeated at spacing it holds a difficult embankment with almost no maintenance.
Feature Containers: Its symmetry suits a single large urn flanking an entry or terrace.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5-2m for a continuous mass
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2.5-3m
Best Planting Season: Spring through summer while soil is warm
Soil & Drainage: Sandy or gritty and free draining. It tolerates poor soil readily but rots in ground that stays wet through winter.
Establishment Care: Water weekly for the first two months to settle the roots, then taper to occasional deep soaks only. Use a gravel or coarse bark mulch kept clear of the crown, and in hot inland districts give light afternoon shade so the cream tissue does not scorch.
Plant Details
Height: 1.5-2m of foliage, with an occasional flower panicle to 6m or more
Width: 2-2.5m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to bright filtered light, part shade in hot inland areas
Native to: The Caribbean and northern South America
Flower Colour: Greenish white and fragrant, produced only once at the end of the rosette's life
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







