After pistachio21

Inspired by pistachio21's recent Blip of an Agave plant that looks very much like a sea-green propellor. Had previously tried to get a similar sort of effect with my own Agave plants, but none of the photos I ended up with did the trick. Many of the edges of the giant frond/leaves had succumbed to various nicks and scratches and war wounds, which completely undermined any attempts to make them look like smooth, sharp propellor edges.
However I went back over those photos to see if any had potential for a vaguely abstract take on an Agave. Lo and behold, found two that gave this effect a pretty decent nudge.
The leaves are so commonplace that we tend to ignore them and walk on by. However if you take the time to look a little more closely, they reveal themselves to be very exotic and arresting structures. Smoothly textured and randomly coated with what looks for all the world like a light dusting of baking flour, the firm but flexible leaves develop into large rosettes, uniformly tinted in that luscious, almost artificial pale bluish green, with a central elongated cone narrowing to a sharp point at the end.
So Agaves tend to be rather common plants, thriving in a wide range of different soils and environments, in part because they need little or no maintenance, but also because they have a very useful habit of frequently reproducing themselves with virtually no human intervention.
But next time you're about to walk on past an Agave on the grounds that they're so ordinary and routine, pause for a few moments to look more closely at the details of their form and structure and colouring, and you'd surely have to be something of a botanical vulgarian not to see anew hints of their exotic weirdness and peculiar grandeur.
They're very much a sleeper plant.