Dasylirion acrotrichum, the great desert spoon and green sotol (also, spoon yucca, though not a true Yucca), is a plant native to the Chihuahuan Desert and other xeric habitats in northern and central Mexico.
Description The foliage is firm narrow bladed leaves up to long, grasslike and across, symmetrically radiating in a rosette, tall by the same in diameter, from a central core that elongates into decumbent trunks. The mid Summer flower spike of small white flowers is tall.
Cultivation The drought-tolerant and dramatic plant is cultivated by nurseries for use in personal gardens and larger xeriscape landscape projects in the Southwestern United States and California. Dasylirion acrotrichum is hardy to
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