About Dasylirion acrotrichum (Schiede) Zucc.
This plant, known by the scientific name Dasylirion acrotrichum (Schiede) Zucc., produces firm, narrow, grass-like blade-shaped foliage. Individual leaves can reach up to 1 metre (40 inches) in length and 1 centimetre (0.4 inches) across. The leaves grow symmetrically radiating out from a central core in a rosette, which forms a plant 1.8 metres (6 feet) tall with an equal diameter. The central core eventually elongates into decumbent trunks. In mid-summer, the plant produces a tall flower spike holding small white flowers; this spike grows between 1.8 and 4.6 metres (6 to 15 feet) tall. Dasylirion acrotrichum is drought-tolerant and grown by nurseries for planting in private gardens and larger xeriscape landscape projects in the Southwestern United States and California. It is hardy to temperatures as low as −7 °C (20 °F).
