Information about Yucca
- For the potato-like vegetable, see yuca.
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The yuccas comprise the genus Yucca of 40-50 species of perennials, shrubs, and trees in the agave family Agavaceae, notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal clusters of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry parts of North America, Central America, and the West Indies.
Yuccas have a very specialized pollination system, being pollinated by the yucca moth; the insect purposefully transfers the pollen from the stamens of one plant to the stigma of another, and at the same time lays an egg in the flower; the moth larva then eats some of the developing seeds, but far from all.
Yuccas are widely grown as ornamental plants in gardens. Many yuccas also bear edible parts, including fruits, seeds, flowers, flowering stems, and more rarely roots, but use of these is sufficiently limited that references to yucca as food more often than not stem from confusion with the similarly spelled but botanically unrelated yuca.
Dried yucca wood has the lowest ignition temperature of any other wood, making it one of the more desirable woods for fire-starting.
The "yucca flower" is the state flower of New Mexico. No species name is given in the citation.
Species
| Yucca aloifolia | Aloe yucca | ||
) | ) | Yucca brevifolia | Joshua tree |
| Yucca constricta | Buckley's yucca | ||
) | ) | Yucca baccata | Banana yucca, datil |
) | ) | Yucca decipiens | Palma China |
) | ) | Yucca elata | Soaptree yucca |
| ) | Yucca filamentosa | Spoonleaf yucca or Filament yucca |
| Yucca filifera | Palma Chuna yucca | ||
| Yucca flaccida | Flaccid leaf yucca | ||
) | Yucca glauca | Great Plains yucca | |
) | Yucca gloriosa | Moundlily yucca, Adam's needle, Spanish Dagger | |
| Yucca grandiflora | Sahuiliqui yucca | ||
| Yucca harrimaniae | Harriman's yucca | ||
| Yucca intermedia | Intermediate Yucca | ||
| Yucca jaliscensis | Izote | ||
| Yucca kanabensis | Kanab yucca | ||
| Yucca lacandonica | Tropical yucca | ||
| Yucca madrensis | Soco yucca | ||
| Yucca nana | Dwarf yucca | ||
) | Yucca pallida | Pale yucca | |
| Yucca periculosa | Izote | ||
| Yucca recurvifolia | Curve-leaf yucca | ||
| Yucca rigida | Blue yucca | ||
) | Yucca rostrata | Big Bend yucca | |
| Yucca rupicola | Texas yucca, or Twist-leaf yucca | ||
) | Yucca schidigera | Mojave yucca | |
| Yucca schottii | Hoary yucca or Mountain yucca | ||
| Yucca standleyi | |||
) | Yucca thompsoniana | Thompson's Yucca | |
| Yucca thornberi | |||
| Yucca torreyi | Torrey yucca | ||
| Yucca treculiana | Texas bayonette, Trecul's yucca | ||
| Yucca valida | Datilillo | ||
| Yucca yucatana | Yucatan yucca |
A number of other species previously classified in Yucca are now classified in the genera Dasylirion, Furcraea, Hesperaloe, Hesperoyucca and Nolina.
Cultivars
In the years from 1897 to 1907, Carl Ludwig Sprenger created and named 122 Yucca hybrids.Other facts
Because of their omnipresence in the southwestern United States, yuccas have lent their name to several places:- Yucca, Arizona
- Yucca Valley, California
- Yucca Mountain, Nevada
- Yucca House National Monument
References
- M. & G. Irish, Agaves, Yuccas, and Related Plants: a Gardener's Guide (Timber Press, 2000). ISBN 0-88192-442-3
- Common names of yucca species
- UVSC Herbarium - Yucca
- New Mexico Statutes and Court Rules: State Flower
Gallery
) Joshua Trees(Yucca brevifolia), growing in the Mojave Desert.]] | ) Unknown species near Orosí, Costa Rica. |
M. esculenta
Binomial name
Manihot esculenta
Crantz
The cassava, manioc, casava, or yucca (Manihot esculenta
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Binomial name
Manihot esculenta
Crantz
The cassava, manioc, casava, or yucca (Manihot esculenta
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Plantae
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Divisions
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Liliopsida - Monocots
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Asparagales is an order of flowering plants. The order must include the family Asparagaceae, but other families included in the order have varied markedly between different classifications.
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Agavaceae
Hutchinson
Type genus
Agave
L.
Genera
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Agavaceae is a family of plants that includes many well-known desert and dry zone types such as the agave, yucca, and Joshua tree.
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Type genus
Agave
L.
Genera
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Agavaceae is a family of plants that includes many well-known desert and dry zone types such as the agave, yucca, and Joshua tree.
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Agave
L.
Species
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Agave is the name of a succulent plant of a large botanical genus of the same name, belonging to the family Agavaceae.
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Agavaceae
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Type genus
Agave
L.
Genera
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Agavaceae is a family of plants that includes many well-known desert and dry zone types such as the agave, yucca, and Joshua tree.
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Type genus
Agave
L.
Genera
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Agavaceae is a family of plants that includes many well-known desert and dry zone types such as the agave, yucca, and Joshua tree.
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M. esculenta
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Crantz
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Crantz
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