| Scientific Name: | Beaucarnea recurvata |
| Common Name: | ponytail palm |
| Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Grass-like, Spiraled, Basal, Leathery, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Panicle, White, Yellow |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Dark-red |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Like a small palm tree but with stem widely swollen at base (may appear as rounded brown ball on young plants), up to only 1-2m tall after many years; leaves linear and curve back on themselves near tips, most 45-90(-180)cm long x 0.5-2cm wide. | |