''Yucca potosina'', English common name Potosà palm soapwort or Potosi palm, Rzed.
[Rzedowski, Ciencia; Revista Hispano-Americana de Ciencias Puras y Aplicadas. México 15: 90 1955.] is a plant species in the family
Asparagaceae, native to the east central Mexico from
Hidalgo
Hidalgo may refer to:
People
* Hidalgo (nobility), members of the Spanish nobility
* Hidalgo (surname)
Places
Mexico
* Hidalgo (state), in central Mexico
* Hidalgo, Coahuila, a town in the north Mexican state of Coahuila
* Hidalgo, Nuevo Leà ...
to
San LuÃs PotosÃ. It is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental, but not widely.
''Yucca potosina'' is a rather large tree-like species up to 8 m tall, with occasional branching. Leaves are stiff, narrow, rough, up to 100 cm long.
Inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...
is up to 120 cm long. Flowers are white, elongated, up to 50 mm long and 15 mm across.
[CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.]
References
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potosina
Plants described in 1955
Flora of Mexico
Flora of Hidalgo (state)
Flora of San Luis PotosÃ
Flora of Querétaro
Flora of Guanajuato