Yucca
Yucca filamentosa in New Zealand
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Asparagales Family: Agavaceae Genus: Yucca L.
Species
many, see text Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (590x821, 327 KB) Summary Superb spiking of yukka filamentosa. ... For other uses, see Scientific classification (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Plant (disambiguation). ... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. ... Liliopsida is the botanical name for a class. ... Families according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Agapanthus Agavaceae Alliaceae Amaryllidaceae Aphyllanthaceae Asparagaceae Asphodelaceae Asteliaceae Blandfordiaceae Boryaceae Doryanthaceae Hemerocallidaceae Hyacinthaceae Hypoxidaceae Iridaceae Ixioliriaceae Lanariaceae Laxmanniaceae Orchidaceae Ruscaceae Tecophilaeaceae Themidaceae Xanthorrhoea Xeronema Asparagales is an order of monocots which includes a number of families of non-woody plants. ... Type genus Agave L. Genera See text. ... Carl Linnaeus, Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as  , (May 13, 1707[1] – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ... For other uses, see Species (disambiguation). ...

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. For other uses, see Genus (disambiguation). ... Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... A broom shrub in flower A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth. ... Species see text. ... Type genus Agave L. Genera See text. ... Look up foliage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Flower (disambiguation). ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... For other uses, see Central America (disambiguation). ... The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ...

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. Carpenter bee with pollen collected from Night-blooming cereus Pollination is an important step in the reproduction of seed plants: the transfer of pollen grains (male gametes) to the plant carpel, the structure that contains the ovule (female gamete). ... Genera Parategeticula Tegeticula Prodoxus The Prodoxidae is a family of moths commonly known as the yucca moths. ...

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. Petunia This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Fruit (disambiguation). ... A ripe red jalapeño cut open to show the seeds For other uses, see Seed (disambiguation). ... Stem showing internode and nodes plus leaf petiole and new stem rising from node. ... For other uses, see Root (disambiguation). ... Yuca redirects here. ...

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. This is a list of U.S. state flowers: List of U.S. state trees Lists of U.S. state insignia ^ State Flower of Alabama. ... Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Largest metro area Albuquerque metropolitan area Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq mi (315,194 km²)  - Width 342 miles (550 km)  - Length 370 miles (595 km)  - % water 0. ...

Species

		Yucca aloifolia	Aloe yucca, Spanish Bayonet
		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. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 398 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1360 × 2048 pixels, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 257 KB) Closeup of Yucca brevifolia flower in Red Rock Canyon, taken March 2005 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages link to this file: Yucca User:Stan Shebs/Gallery/Plants M-Z ... This article is about the tree. ... Photo of Yucca baccata at Red Rock Canyon, taken May 2004 by User:Stan Shebs File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (499x662, 75 KB)Closeup photo of Yucca baccata at Red Rock Canyon, taken May 2004 by User:Stan Shebs File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Binomial name Yucca baccata The Banana yucca (Yucca baccata) is a common type of yucca in the Mojave Desert of the southwestern United States. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 480 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2336 × 2920 pixel, file size: 3. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 480 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2336 × 2920 pixel, file size: 3. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 404 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (800 × 1186 pixel, file size: 155 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo of Yucca elata (soaptree yucca) at the Desert Demonstration Garden in Las Vegas, taken May 2004 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 389 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (800 × 1232 pixel, file size: 137 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo of Yucca elata (soaptree yucca) flowers at the Desert Demonstration Garden in Las Vegas, taken May 2004 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following... Binomial name Yucca elata The Soaptree yucca (Yucca elata) is a perennial plant of the yucca family Agavaceae. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (590x821, 327 KB) Summary Superb spiking of yukka filamentosa. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (480x640, 169 KB) Name Yucca filamentosa Family Liliaceae Image no. ... Binomial name Yucca filamentosa L. Yucca filamentosa, commonly known as Adams needle, is a yucca plant in the family Agavaceae. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 400 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1262 × 1889 pixels, file size: 2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1932 × 2576 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2736 × 3648 pixels, file size: 3. ... Binomial name Linnaeus The Spanish dagger or Moundlily yucca (Yucca gloriosa) is a shrub of the family Agavaceae, and of the genus Yucca. ... Image File history File links Photo of Yucca pallida at the Desert Demonstration Garden in Las Vegas, taken October 2003 by User:Stan Shebs Although described by the garden as , the waviness of the leaves strongly suggests some hybridization with the twisted-leaf yucca Yucca rupicola. ... Yucca pallida McKelvey, sometimes called pale yucca, is a species of yucca native to parts of the blackland prairies of northern and central Texas, and notable for its light-colored leaves that range from a pale blue-gray to sage-green in color. ... Binomial name Salisb. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 449 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1932 × 2580 pixels, file size: 1. ... Binomial name Yucca rostrata, also called Beaked yucca, is a tree-like plant belonging to the Yucca genus native to southern U.S. and northern Mexico. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1920x2560, 412 KB) Photo of a Yucca schidigera (Mojave yucca) in Palm Canyon, California, taken March 2005 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages link to this file: Yucca Mojave yucca User:Stan Shebs/Gallery/Plants M-Z ... Binomial name Yucca schidigera Roezl ex Ortgies The Mojave yucca (Yucca schidigera), also known as the Spanish Dagger, is a flowering plant of the family Agavaceae that is native to the Mojave desert and Sonoran desert of southeastern California, Baja California, southern Nevada and western Arizona. ... Image File history File links Yucca_brooklyn. ... Species Dasylirion wheeleri and others. ... Species See text Furcraea is a genus of succulent plants belonging to the family Agavaceae, native to tropical regions of Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and northern South America. ... Hesperaloe are a genera in Agavaceae (Agave family) of perennial yucca-like desert plants. ... Species See text Hesperoyucca is a small genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Agavaceae, closely related to and recently split from Yucca, but distinct in having dehiscent fruit and a scape more than 2. ... Nolina is a genus of plants in the agave family Agavaceae. ...

Cultivars

In the years from 1897 to 1907, Carl Ludwig Sprenger created and named 122 Yucca hybrids. Carl Ludwig Sprenger was a German botanist, born on 30 November 1846 at Güstrow, Mecklembourg and died 13 December 1917 on the island of Corfu. ...

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

Yuccas are poisonous to rabbits. Yucca Valley is in San Bernardino County, California, United States. ... Yucca Mountain Yucca Mountain is a ridge line in Nye County, in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Nevada. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Nevada. ... Yucca House National Monument is a large, unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan surface site. ...

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

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Joshua Trees(Yucca brevifolia), growing in the Mojave Desert Image File history File links Size of this preview: 545 × 409 pixelsFull resolution (545 × 409 pixel, file size: 50 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... For the indigenous American tribe, see Mohave. ...

Unknown species near Orosí, Costa Rica. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 633 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (899 × 852 pixel, file size: 99 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Near Orosí, Costa Rica. ... Orosí seen from the South Orosí is a village in Costa Rica, about 30 km South East of the capital San José. It has a population of about 9000 and is one of the few colonial towns to survive Costa Ricas frequent earthquakes, with one of the oldest churches...