lechuguilla
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My wounds, though deep, were not dangerous; they were only flesh-wounds, and closed rapidly under the cauterising influence of the _lechuguilla_.
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- The name of several species of Agave, especially of A. Lecheguilla, which yield a valuable fiber and a saponaceous substance of various forms called amole. They are characterized by comparatively narrow, rigid leaves from 10 to 30 inches long which have along their margin a continuous toothed horny border. The flower-stalk, rising to a height of from 5 to 8 feet, bears a comparatively slender spike of flowers. Generally speaking, these plants grow on the high table-land of northern central Mexico, western Texas, and Arizona. Their fiber is often called istle, or Tampico fiber.
- Jaumave lechugilla Agave lophantha, the source of Jaumave istle.
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My wounds, though deep, were not dangerous; they were only flesh-wounds, and closed rapidly under the cauterising influence of the _lechuguilla_.
— The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse -
In places where it would seem impossible for living plants to thrive, there may be found the _lechuguilla_, its stalk rising to the height of twenty feet, and its thorny leaves branching out in clusters along its length; its fiber is made into rope; the sap expressed from its leaves, when boiled to the consistency of honey is an admirable dressing for wounds, causing light cuts to cicatrice almost immediately, and even ugly gashes will yield to it in time.
— Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography -
There flourish the pecan, the hackberry, the black walnut, the wild china, with evergreen oaks, plums, and clustering grapevines; while in the sterile plain above are only seen those forms of the botanical world that truly indicate the desert -- various species of cactaceae, agaves, and yuccas -- the palmilla and lechuguilla, dwarf-cedars, and mezquites, artemisia, and the strong-smelling larrea, or "creosote plant."
— The Lone Ranche -
_lechuguilla_.
— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan -
A. lechuguilla (lechuguilla)
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