{"id":2340,"date":"2022-03-28T09:56:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T15:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalunamezcal.com\/usa\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2022-11-16T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T18:27:12","slug":"maguey-everything-you-need-to-know-about-this-mexican-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalunamezcal.com\/usa\/maguey-everything-you-need-to-know-about-this-mexican-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguey, everything you need to know about this mexican plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you hear the word maguey, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? mezcal? pulque? a landscape worthy of a postcard? There’s<\/span> more than that, so today we’re going to tell you everything that surrounds these proudly Mexican plants and everything they offer us.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is maguey?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The agave also known as maguey, is a plant of Mexican origin, but it was the Swedish naturalist Carlos Linneo, who in 1753 made this genus of flora scientifically known in Europe under that name, taking the Greek word Agavos, which means “illustrious or admirable”.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, different Mexican cultures gave other names to this plant, for example, uad\u00e1 in Otomi, doba in Zapotec, akamba in Pur\u00e9pecha. The ancient Mexican called it melt or mexcalmetl, from which the name Mezcal comes, a drink made with the pineapple or heart of the maguey.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mexico is the place of origin of the Agaves family and of the 273 different species, it has 205 species, of which 151 are endemic and are found in different parts of the Republic. The states where these species are most present are Chihuahua, Oaxaca, Michoac\u00e1n, Coahuila, Durango, and Jalisco.<\/span><\/p>\n

Main uses of maguey<\/b><\/h2>\n

To talk about the use of agave, we must go back to pre-Columbian times when the benefits of this plant were discovered that was useful to the indigenous people to make many products such as sacks, rugs, fishing nets; the quiotes used them as beams or fences and the thorns as nails and needles.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, throughout history some of them have remained and others have been transformed, but what remains intact are the various qualities of the maguey of which today we can highlight as main uses:<\/span><\/p>\n