Vegetative characters of Agave landraces used for the production of pulque in Tlaxcala.

Raw data of 19 morphological variables of vegetative characters of nine Agave landraces (N=478 individuals) used for the production of pulque in 10 localities of Tlaxcala. These data were used to analyze and describe the morphological diversity of these varieties.

Nine Agave landraces used for pulque production in 10 localities Tlaxcala were analyzed: Agave salmiana subsp. salmiana ‘Amarillo’, ‘Ayoteco’, ‘Colorado’, ‘Chalqueño’, ‘Chino’, ‘Manso’, ‘Prieto’, and ‘Xilomelt’ and Agave mapisaga var. mapisaga ‘Palmilla’. Twenty-two populations of 13–35 individuals were included in the study (N = 478 individuals). Both landraces and wild individuals were identified at the species and subspecies level  following García-Mendoza’s (2011) and Gentry’s (1982) taxonomic keys. Twenty morphological variables were measured in de field between 2018 and 2019.