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Dasylirion lucidum is a spiny desert shrub from Oaxaca and Puebla in Mexico, grown for its architectural rosette of thin, spine-edged leaves. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and very little water.
Dasylirion lucidum is a plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Puebla. This is a shrub up to 2 m high, with thin, spiny-margined leaves and a scape up to 3 m tall.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dasylirion lucidum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
