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Yucca faxoniana
Also called Faxon Yucca, Spanish Dagger, Spanish Bayonet
Yucca faxoniana is a small evergreen tree in the genus Yucca with 1 or sometimes more trunks, enlarged at base and either unbranched or with 1 or 2 upright branches and with long bayonetlike leaves. It is known by the common names Faxon yucca, Spanish dagger, and giant dagger.
It is named for Charles Edward Faxon (1846-1918), the illustrator of Charles Sprague Sargent's 14-volume Silva of North America. Birds and mammals eat the fleshy fruit.
Yucca faxoniana is native to the northwestern Chihuahuan Desert region of northern Mexico, southern New Mexico, and Trans-Pecos Texas. Its range is centered around Big Bend National Park. In Mexico it occurs in eastern Chihuahua and in Coahuila.
Native Americans used the fruit as a food source—raw, roasted, dried, and ground into meals. They also used the plant leaves as a fiber in basketry, cloth, mats, ropes, and sandals.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Yucca faxoniana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
