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Yuccas have a very specialized, mutualistic pollination system; being pollinated by yucca moths (family Prodoxidae); the insect 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 feeds on some of the developing seeds, always leaving enough seed to ...
A dry, opened seed pod. This plant grows from 1.2 to 4.5 m tall, with a sparsely branched trunk. The trunk is brown, cylindrical in shape and has a small diameter and often has holes drilled by escaping yucca moth larvae. The leaves are arranged in a dense spiral whorl at the apex of the stems, each leaf 25–95 cm long and very slender, 0.2-1. ...
Yucca schidigera, also known as the Mojave yucca or Spanish dagger, is a perennial plant in the asaparagus family native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It is most common in the Mojave Desert , but also occurs extensively in the Sonoran Desert and west to the Pacific coast of southern California and Baja California .
To plant carrot tops in soil, fill seed-starting trays or pots with a rich potting mix amended with compost. Then, plant the carrot tops in the soil so the carrot shoulders and greens are just ...
Yucca whipplei Torr. Hesperoyucca whipplei (syn. Yucca whipplei), the chaparral yucca, [2] our Lord's candle, [2] Spanish bayonet, [3] Quixote yucca[2] or foothill yucca, [4] is a species of flowering plant closely related to, and formerly usually included in, the genus Yucca. It is native to southwest communities of North America.
Manihot utilissima Pohl. Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes. Although a perennial plant, cassava is extensively cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions as an ...
"Yucca moths" have a remarkable biology. They are famous for an old and intimate relationship with Yucca plants and are their obligate pollinators as well as herbivores. [4] Interactions of these organisms range from obligate mutualism to commensalism to outright antagonism. Their bore holes are a common sight on trunks of such plants as the ...
Yucca baccata (datil yucca or banana yucca, also known as Spanish bayonet and broadleaf yucca) [4][5] is a common species of yucca native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, from southeastern California north to Utah, east to western Texas and south to Sonora and Chihuahua.