PlantWerkz: Great Desert Spoon - Dasylirion Acrotrichum

Great Desert Spoon - Dasylirion Acrotrichum

Common Name: Great Desert Spoon

Scientific Name: Dasylirion Acrotrichum

Height: up to 6 ft ( up to 1.8 m)

Span: up to 6 ft (up to 1.8 m)

Growth Rate: Medium

Sun Tolerance: Full Sun

ABP Index: 3.5 (Aesthetics 4.0, Solidarity 3.0)

Dasylirion acrotrichum commonly known as the Great Desert Spoon also called green Sotol. It is a plant native to northern and central Mexico. This is also an ornamental evergreen plant. The plant grows up to 6 feet (1.8m) tall by the same in diameter. The foliage is firm narrow bladed leaves up to 40 inches long (1 m), grass-like and 0.4 inch across (1 cm). The leaves are symmetrically radiating in a rosette, from a central core that elongates into decumbent trunks. It blooms white flowers in mid summer. The flowers are 6 to 15 feet tall (2-5 m). People like to plant it in their garden.