Beaucarnea olsonii V.Rojas-Piña & L.O.Alvarado
Asparagaceae
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Summary
Beaucarnea olsonii is a plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Mexico. The species is named for the botanist Mark E. Olson.
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About the genus · Beaucarnea
Beaucarnea is a genus of flowering plants native to Mexico and Central America. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Convallarioideae. Beaucarnea is sometimes treated as a synonym of the genus Nolina, with the species being then transferred to that genus. More on Wikipedia ›
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Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Beaucarnea, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Eugenio Padilla, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (3); Eugenio Padilla, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIF (4).
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Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Beaucarnea olsonii, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Other Beaucarnea 12 in the reference
Beaucarnea compacta Asparagaceae
Beaucarnea glassiana Asparagaceae
Beaucarnea goldmanii Asparagaceae
Beaucarnea gracilis Mexican Pony Tail Palm
Beaucarnea guatemalensis Asparagaceae
Beaucarnea hiriartiae Ponytail palm
Beaucarnea hookeri Asparagaceae
Beaucarnea pliabilis Mexican ponytail
Beaucarnea purpusii Asparagaceae
Beaucarnea recurvata Elephant's-foot
Beaucarnea sanctomariana Tehuantepec ponytail
Beaucarnea stricta Bottle Palm History & registers
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