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.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Great Desert Spoon being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Dasylirion serratifolium
- Dasylirion parryanum
- Dasylirion cedrosanum
- Nolina orbicularis
- Dasylirion wheeleri
- Dasylirion leiophyllum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Genus
- Dasylirion
- Species
- Dasylirion acrotrichum
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