Yucca
Yucca is a family of shrubs and trees, related to the agaves. There are between 40 and 50 different kinds of Yucca. All come from the hot and dry places in North and Central America, as well as the Caribbean.
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| Yucca baccata in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada | |
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They have a very special way of pollination. There is an animal, the Yucca moth, which does the pollination. It also lays its eggs in the plant. The larvae will eat some of the seeds, but not all of them.
In many parts of the world, yuccas are grown as ornamental flowers.
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A Yucca tree (Y. decipiens)
- Yucca thompsoniana flowers.jpg
Yucca Thomsonia (flowering)
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Yucca gloriosa
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Yucca Media
- Narrowleaf Yucca Blossoms (34920628044).jpg
Narrowleaf yucca (Yucca angustissima) blooming in Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
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Yucca moths inside a yucca flower, Candler County, Georgia
Larva of a yucca giant-skipper butterfly on a yucca leaf in Florida
- Spun cordage, 900-1100 AD, Kayenta Anasazi, Twin Cave House, Arizona, yucca fiber - Natural History Museum of Utah - DSC07359.JPG
Spun yucca-fiber cordage, c. 900 CE – c. 1100 CE, Kayenta Anasazi, Twin Cave House, Arizona
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Yucca flaccida in the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid
An opened banana yucca (Yucca baccata) fruit, Mojave National Preserve
