YUCCA

Yucca

Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. Its 40-50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry parts of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Early reports of the species were confused with the cassava . Consequently, Linnaeus mistakenly derived the generic name from the Taino word for the latter, yuca . It is also colloquially known in the Midwest United States as "ghosts in the graveyard", as it is commonly found growing in ...

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yucca

Noun

  1. Any of several evergreen plants, of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.


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