Spoon Yucca

I recommend two different options. The 3 foot long narrow leaves are blue gray color with sharp serrated margins and a spoon shaped base that gives the plant one of its common name. 4 6 feet.

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Desert sotol is an architectural marvel of a plant.

Spoon yucca. Dasylirion wheeleri spoon yucca an evergreen long lived plant with long gray strap shaped serrated leaves on a stout short trunk that can rise 4 to 6 feet and the spread can be about the same. Dasylirion wheeleri desert spoon sotol spoon yucca a grassy looking evergreen shrub that forms clumps of long stiff gray green leaves with distinctive spoon shaped bases. Belonging to the genus dasylirion the plant is native to texas new mexico and arizona. Yuca or cassava is a root vegetable that is very similar to the texture of a potato.

It s upright sword shaped leaves resemble a yucca but they curve inward at the base giving them the name desert spoon. It is dense very starchy and full of carbs fiber and vitamin c. The rosettes of leaves are usually stemless and up to 6 feet in diameter. They resemble nolinabut unlike those plants most sotols have sharp prickles along their leaf margins.

Leaf margins are serrated and sharp. As they age they do grow very big and don t look as attractive. 12 24 mature size. However the hundreds of long narrow leaves of desert spoon are armed with small sharp marginal teeth.

The yucca like desert spoon dasylirion wheeleri is also known as sotol. It is very similar to beargrass and grows in the same habitat. Native to the deserts and mountains of the southwest and mexico these yucca relatives tolerate dry rocky alkaline soil and considerable drought though some irrigation will speed growth. This species of dasylirion is a little more commonly grown in southern california u s as specimen plants or additions to xeriscapes.

Replace them with new ones or dig the entire plant and remove a small section of the red yucca and replant. The plant makes an excellent accent in southwestern gardens and desert landscapes. It is called the desert spoon since its leaves are flat and slightly cupped holding water at its spoon shaped base where it attaches to the trunk it has to be removed to see this shape. You can remove outer stems at the base but this is a lot of work and they do grow back quickly.

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Develops a stout trunk over time. Dasylirion wheeleri desert spoon spoon flower sotol or common sotol is a species of flowering plant in the asparagus family asparagaceae native to arid environments of northern mexico in chihuahua and sonora and in the southwestern united states in the sonoran desert in arizona and also in new mexico and texas. Because it grows in the regions with subtropical climates it is more popular in south america mexico and some parts of us. This is a common problem with red yucca.