Quiz for you

[agavegreg]

No locality info will be provided just yet.

[Melt in the Sun]

titanota

[agavegreg]

That's a good one Danny!

[Viegener]

"FO-76"!

[Melt in the Sun]

Seriously though...well, it looks like a Nolina. Probably in Mexico knowing your recent travel history! That's all I got.

[agavegreg]

Seriously though...well, it looks like a Nolina. Probably in Mexico knowing your recent travel history! That's all I got.

Yep, it is a Nolina and from somewhere south of the international border between the U.S. and Mexico.

[Gee.S]

Calling all Pauls!

[Paul S]

Just back from a week in the Azores - no nolinas there! Well, actually there were 3 sorry looking things in the botanical garden in Sao Miguel.

Looks like Nolina parviflora, but then so do a lot of them! Location would help!

[agavegreg]

A locality would just make it to easy.

[Paul S]

Well,I'll plump for N. parviflora - of the Mexican ones I've seen that is the best fit. My only reservation is the leaf density in the crown of those young plants - seems more crowded than yer average parviflora. That is a bit of a cop out, though, as according to this paper they vary considerably in appearance across the range. For sure plants that I have seen that are ostensibly parviflora look so different from each other that it is hard to rationalise them as the same.

[agavegreg]

Okay, you've suffered through this long enough. This one does not grow on mainland Mexico.

[Agavemonger]

Isn't the first plant a Dasylirion? The tufted, weeping "burnt" leaf-tip ends don't look at all like a Nolina!

I would think Dasylirion leiophyllum from Southern Texas?

The Monger

[agavegreg]

Isn't the first plant a Dasylirion? The tufted, weeping "burnt" leaf-tip ends don't look at all like a Nolina!

I would think Dasylirion leucophylum from Southern Texas.

The Monger

Hah! Nope, just a young one of the others. They are from south of the border. More south for you Monger.

[Spination]

N. parryi? But, I'm just sayin' up front....I know nuthin' 'bout Nolina

EDIT
Just looking at some photos ... N. matapensis looks similar

[Agavemonger]

Okay, how about Nolina durangensis?

Must be pretty windy there!

The Monger

[agavegreg]

Okay, how about Nolina durangensis?

Must be pretty windy there!

The Monger

Think long, narrow peninsula.

[Spination]

I was, so I looked at the the list of species, and any mention of Baja. I only saw interrata, palmeri, and parryi. Of those, I thought parryi looked closest, although only a pathetic volume of photos out there that I could find...

EDIT - Opps, missed one first time through. N. beldingi is another down there in Baja...

[Gee.S]

From what I've seen, other than ssp. wolfii, N. parryi is a beargrass.

[toditd]

Isn't the first plant a Dasylirion? The tufted, weeping "burnt" leaf-tip ends don't look at all like a Nolina!

I would think Dasylirion leucophylum from Southern Texas.

The Monger

Hah! Nope, just a young one of the others. They are from south of the border. More south for you Monger.

I was wondering if the plant in the first photo might be a different species than the last two, as well. The leaves in the first photo form such a beautiful sphere and have that Dasylirion look, while the others have that having-a-bad-hair-day beargrass look.

Thanks for that additional clue that the photos are of the same species.

[agavegreg]

I find it odd that there are no Dasylirion species on the Baja California peninsula while there are Yuccas, Agaves, Hesperoyucca, and Nolinas.

Those shots are of Nolina palmeri var. brandegeei taken in the Sierra San Francisco.