List of Texas state symbols
Other official designations

List of Texas state symbols

Section Title: Other official designations
Table Section Text: None

Type	Symbol	Date Designated	Image

State air force	Commemorative Air Force

State bread	Pan de campo

State cooking implement	Dutch oven	-

State dinosaur	Sauroposeidon

State dish	Chili	1977	-

State domino game	Texas 42, a four-player domino game with bidding and trumps

State fiber and fabric	Cotton	CottonPlant.JPG

State fish	Guadalupe bass (Micropterus treculii)	1989	-

State folk dance	Square dance	1991

State fruit	Texas red grapefruit	1993	-

State gem	Texas blue topaz	1969

State gemstone cut	Lone Star Cut	-

State grass	Sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)	1971	-

State insect	Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)	1995	-

State molecule	Buckyball or Buckminsterfullerene, C60	-

State music	Western swing

Musical instrument	Acoustic guitar	-

State nut	Native Pecan	1919	-

State pepper (native)	Chiltepin (Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum)	-

State pepper (other)	Jalapeño	1995	-

State plant	Prickly pear cactus	1995	-

State plays	Fort Griffin Fandangle, The Lone Star, Texas, Beyond Sundown

State reptile	Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum), commonly called the horny toad or horned frog.	1993	-

State shell	Lightning whelk (Sinistrofulgur perversum pulleyi)	1987	-

State ship	The battleship USS Texas (BB-35)	-

State shrub	Crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica)	-

State shrub (native)	Texas sage (Leucophyllum frutescens)	-

State slogan	"The Friendly State"	1930

State snack	Tortilla chips and salsa	1995

State sport	Rodeo	1997	-

State stone	Petrified palmwood	Petrified-Forest-Chemnitz4.JPG

State tartan	Texas Bluebonnet Tartan	May 25, 1989	-

State pastries	Strudel and sopaipilla	2003-2005

State vegetable	Texas sweet onion	1997

Sentence(s)

Fort Griffin Fandangle is one of the four designated state plays of Texas.

final_sentence: Fort Griffin Fandangle is one of the four designated state plays of Texas.