The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Beaucarnea gracilis
Also called Mexican Pony Tail Palm
Beaucarnea gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family. It is native to Puebla, and northern parts of Oaxaca, in Mexico, where it is endemic to the Tehuacán Valley matorral. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.
It is an arborescent species, and plants can form large trees over time. It has a stem that is basally enormously swollen and circular in cross-section, with modest branching, growing up to 12m tall.
Beaucarnea goldmanii · Ponytail Palm · Beaucarnea olsonii · Mexican Ponytail · Beaucarnea purpusii · Elephant's-foot · Tehuantepec Ponytail · Bottle Palm · Bottle Palm · Beaucarnea glassiana · Calibanus hookeri · Bottle Palm
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Beaucarnea gracilis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
