Dasylirion acrotrichum
Dasylirion acrotrichum (Schiede) Zucc.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.8 m
- wide
- 1.8 m
Asparagaceae
Formerly Barbacenia gracilis, Dasylirion gracile, Dasylirion robustum, Roulinia acrotricha, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Desert Tropicals, one source
- Height
- 1.8 mRead from Desert Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Spread
- 1.8 mRead from Desert Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Desert Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Desert Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Desert Tropicals and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (1)
- Chinese
- 顶毛猬丝兰
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Desert Tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Dasylirion acrotrichum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.