Yucca is a kind of 40-50 species of hardy perennials, Arbuste S and Arbres, remarkable by their rivet washers of hard sheets, in the shape of sword, and by the Grappe S of flowers white or drawing on the white. They are the yuccas. They are indigenous hot and dry areas of the North America, Central America, and the Antilles, and are used like decorative plants for the Jardin in several other parts of the world.

Yucca gloriosa is a species naturalized in France which develops in the sandy coastal areas of south-west. It is also this species which is usually sold in garden-center to be used as House plant.

These plants being very widespread in the south-west of the United States, of many places bear their name:

• Yucca Valley , in California
• Yucca Mountain , in the Nevada
• Yucca House National Monument

The Yucca brevifolia is also called Joshua Tree. There is a great concentration in the south of California in the Joshua Tree National Park.

The Yucca baccata is in Colorado and Mexico.

The painter Antoine Chazal (1793-1854) painted a Gloriosa Yucca in the park of the castle of Louis-Philippe with Neuilly: Paris, museum of Louvre, the Yucca gloriosa , oil on fabric, 1845,0,65 X 0,54, table rented by Baudelaire.

Principal species

• Yucca aloifolia L. the Yucca with aloe sheets
• Yucca angustissima Engelm. ex Trel.
• Yucca arkansana Trel.
• Yucca baccata Torr.
• Yucca baileyi Woot. and Standl.
• Yucca brevifolia Engelm.
• Yucca campestris McKelvey
• Yucca constricta Buckl.
• Yucca elata (Engelm.) Engelm.
• Yucca faxoniana (Trel.) Sarg.
• Yucca filamentosa L., the filamentous Yucca
• Yucca will filifera Chabaud (= Yucca australis )
• Yucca flaccida Haw.
• Yucca glauca Nutt.
• Yucca gloriosa L., the superb Yucca
• Yucca guatemalensis Baker, the giant Yucca
• Yucca harrimaniae Trel.
• Yucca ×karlsruhensis Graebn.
• Yucca louisianensis Trel.
• Yucca necopina Shinners
• Yucca pallida McKelvey
• Yucca reverchonii Trel.
• Yucca rupicola Scheele
• Yucca will schidigera Roezl ex Ortgies
• Yucca schottii Engelm.
• Yucca tenuistyla Trel.
• Yucca thompsoniana Trel. (= Yucca rostrata )
• Yucca torreyi Shafer
• Yucca treculeana Carr.
• Yucca whipplei Torr.

urban Legends

In the years 1980, a Rumeur was propagated showing the yuccas sold in Europe to contain Araignée S. Those, after some waterings, were to end up emerging and the firemen being called with the rescue. This rumor was not based, of course, on no valid fact (the spiders laying in the vegetation) and the sale of these plants knew a very significant fall then.

External bonds

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