Dasylirion

Dasylirion is a genus of 17 species of flowering plants in the family Ruscaceae, all native to Mexico, with three species also extending into the southwestern United States.


Some species
Dasylirion acrotrichum - The Great Desert Spoon (Dasylirion acrotrichum) is a plant native to Mexico.

Dasylirion wheeleri (Desert Spoon or Common Sotol) is a flowering plant native to arid environments of the southwestern United States, in Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas, and in northern Mexico, in Chihuahua and Sonora.
It is a moderate to slow-growing evergreen shrub with a single unbranched trunk up to 40 cm thick growing to 1.5 m tall, though often recumbent on the ground. The leaf blade is slender, 35-100 cm long, gray-green, with a toothed margin. The leaves radiate from the center of the plant's apex in all directions-(spherical). The flowering stem grows above the foliage, to a height of 5 m tall, and 3-6 cm diameter. The stem is topped by a long plume of straw-colored small flowers about 2.5 cm long with six tepals. The fruit is an oval dry capsule 5-8 mm long, containing a single seed.
Uses: The Desert Spoon is grown as an ornamental plant, valued in xeriscaping. It can be planted any season but summer and pruned in October. The drink sotol is made from the Desert Spoon. It was also used by the natives of the region for food and fiber.

Dasylirion texanum (Texan Sotol) is an ornamental flowering plant.

Dasylirion longissimum

Dasylirion leiophyllum

Dasylirion lucidum

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