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Dasylirion wheeleri

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weave baskets from the leaves after they strip off the spines from the leaf margins. They also employ the expanded leaf bases in making large artificial flowers as holiday decorations.
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blade is slender, 35–100 cm (14–39 in) long, gray-green, with a toothed margin. The leaves radiate from the center of the plant's apex in all directions (spherical).
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with a single unbranched trunk up to 40 centimetres (16 inches) thick growing to 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall, though often recumbent on the ground. The
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Laferrière, Joseph E., & Willard Van Asdall. 1991. Plant use in Mountain Pima holiday decorations. Kiva 57:27-38.
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Pennington, CW. 1963. The Tarahumar of Mexico, their material culture. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City
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stem grows above the foliage, to a height of 5 m (16 ft) tall and a diameter of 3 cm (
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It was also used by the natives of the region for food and fiber. Its flower stalk can be used as a
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is similar, but the toothed leaves curve towards the base.
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refers to the American surveyor and plant collector
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Desert spoon

Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Monocots
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Nolinoideae
Dasylirion
Binomial name
S. Watson
Rothrock
species
flowering plant
Asparagaceae
northern Mexico
southwestern United States
evergreen
shrub
leaf
flowering
tepals
fruit
capsule
seed
Dasylirion leiophyllum
Spring flowering with a vertical stem, Organ Mountains, New Mexico

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