Dasylirion Longissimum
Common name: Junquillo.
An evergreen plant which looks like a palm tree, this round-topped, bushy plant has a thick cylindrical stem which may grow to heights of up to 3m. Its leaves grow symmetrically, in ribbon form and are more than 1m long, of a blue-green colour. It flowers in summer with lots of cream flowers which appear on the trunk, which later turn into reddish buds full of seeds. There are male and female plants which grow very slowly.
This plant has lots of cream flowers in the summer which grow on the trunks, later becoming reddish buds, full of seeds.
There are male and female plants which grow very slowly.
Origin: Mexico and Arizona.
Temperature: -10 ºC.
Little water. Sun.