Yucca
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- For the potato-like vegetable, see yuca.
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.
The Great Plains Yucca (Yucca glauca) is the state flower of New Mexico.
Species
- Yucca aloifolia, Aloe yucca
- Yucca angustissima, Narrow-leaved yucca
- Yucca angustifolia, Plain's yucca
- Yucca arkansana, Arkansas yucca
- Yucca baccata, Banana yucca, Blue Yucca or Datil
Yucca baccata flowers
- Yucca baileyi, Alpine yucca
- Yucca brevifolia, Joshua tree (Engelmann)
- Yucca cernua, Nodding Yucca
- Yucca confinis, Yucca of the Boundary
- Yucca constricta, Buckley's yucca
- Yucca decipiens, Palma China yucca
- Yucca elata, Soaptree yucca
- Yucca elephantipes, Spineless yucca
- Yucca endlichiana, Pitilla
- Yucca faxoniana, Faxon 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
- Yucca jaliscensis, Izote
- Yucca kanabensis, Kanab yucca
Magnificent Yucca filamentosa flowers- 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
Because of their omnipresence in the southwestern United States, yuccas have lent their name to several places:
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]
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