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Yucca schidigera
Also called Mohave Yucca, Spanish Bayonet
Mojave yucca is a small desert evergreen tree or shrub with rigid, bayonet-like leaves and tall white flower spikes. It thrives in full sun and sharply drained soil, and needs little or no summer water.
Yucca schidigera, also known as the Mojave yucca or Spanish dagger, is a perennial plant in the asparagus family Asparagaceae, 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.
Yucca schidigera is native to Arizona, Baja California, California, Nevada, and Utah. It is found in the southernmost part of Nevada, in Washington County in Utah, and the northwestern part of Arizona.
Moths gather pollen from the flowers and deposit it on the stigma of a flower, the ovary of which they lay their eggs in; the larvae eat of the fruit capsule as it grows, but leave behind some seeds to develop into fruit.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Yucca schidigera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
