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Yucca schidigera
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Yucca schidigera, also known as the Mojave yucca or Spanish Dagger, is a owering plant that is native to the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert of southeastern California, Baja California, southern Nevada and western Arizona. This yucca typically grows on rocky desert slopes and creosote desert ats between 3001,200 metres (9803,900 ft) altitude, rarely up to 2,500 metres (8,200 ft). They thrive in full sun and in soil with excellent drainage. It also needs no summer water. It is related to the Banana yucca (Yucca baccata), which occurs in the same general area; hybrids between the two are sometimes found.

Yucca schidigera Mojave yucca

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Flowering plant, Palm Canyon, California

Scientic classication Kingdom: Plantae Angiosperms Monocots Asparagales Asparagaceae Yucca Y. schidigera Clade: Clade: Order: Family: Genus: Species:

Description
Yucca schidigera is a small evergreen tree growing to 5 metres (16 ft) tall, with a dense crown of spirally arranged bayonet-like leaves on top of a conspicuous basal trunk. The bark is gray-brown, being covered with brown dead leaves near the top, becoming irregularly rough and scalyto-ridged closer to the ground. The leaves are 30150 cm long and 411 cm broad at the base, concavo-convex, thick, very rigid, and yellow-green to blue-green in color.

Subfamily: Agavoideae

Binomial name Yucca schidigera

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The owers are white, sometimes having a purple tinge, bell-shaped, 35 cm long (rarely to 7.5 cm), produced in a compact, bulbous cluster 60120 cm tall at the top of the stem. The

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fruit is an elongate berry, up to 11.5 cm long.[1]

Uses
The bers of the Yucca schidigera leaves were used by Native Americans to make rope, sandals, and cloth. The owers and fruit could be eaten and the black seeds were ground into a our. The roots were used to make soap.

Yucca schidigera trees

Some reports claim that Native Americans washed their hair with yucca to ght dandru and hair loss. Among the other maladies this yucca has been used to treat are headaches, bleeding, gonorrhea, arthritis and rheumatism. Currently extracts from this plant are in animal feed and various herbal medications. The rigid ower stalk of the yucca, after maturation, is used as a substitute for eucalyptus stems or logs to make didgeridoos. It is also used as a natural deodorizer, and is used in pet deodorizers. Steroid saponins are produced commercially from Yucca schidigera.

References
1. ^ "Flora of North America: Yucca schidigera" (http://www.eoras.org /orataxon.aspx?ora_id=1&taxon_id=242102075).

Fritz Hochsttter (ed.): Yucca (Agavaceae). Band 1 Dehiscent-fruited species in the Southwest and Midwest of the USA, Canada and Baja California , Selbst Verlag, 2000. ISBN 3-00-005946-6 Fritz Hochsttter (ed.): Yucca (Agavaceae). Band 2 Indehiscent-fruited species in the Southwest, Midwest and East of the USA, Selbst Verlag. 2002. ISBN 3-00-009008-8 Fritz Hochsttter (ed.): Yucca (Agavaceae). Band 3 Mexico , Selbst Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-00-013124-8 Foster, S.; Duke, J. A. (1990). A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants: Eastern and Central North America. Boston: Houghton Miin. ISBN 0-395-46722-5. Francis, George; Kerem, Zohar; Makkar, Harinder P . S.; Becker, Klaus (2002). "The biological action of saponins in animal systems: a review". British Journal of Nutrition 88 (6): 587605. doi:10.1079/BJN2002725 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1079%2FBJN2002725). PMID 12493081 (//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12493081).

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Flora of North America: Yucca schidigera (http://www.eoras.org /orataxon.aspx?ora_id=1&taxon_id=242102075) Jepson Flora Project: Yucca schidigera (http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin /get_JM_treatment.pl?Yucca%20schidigera) Desert USA entry for Mojave Yucca (http://www.desertusa.com/oct96 /du_myucca.html) Common names of yucca species (http://www.yuccaagavaceae.com /species.html) Yucca I Verbreitungskarte I Fritz Hochsttter | Yucca schidigera photos (http://yuccaagavaceae.com/photos/details.php?image_id=88) Photos of Yucca schidigera by Keir Morse (http://www.keiriosity.com/gallery /main.php/v/plants/Agavaceae/Yucca_schidigera/) Additional info on the Mojave Yucca (http://www.bennyskaktus.dk /Y_schid.htm) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yucca_schidigera& oldid=549797728" Categories: Yucca Flora of the California desert regions Flora of the Sonoran Deserts Flora of Arizona Flora of Baja California Flora of Nevada Flora of California chaparral and woodlands Flora of the Channel Islands of California Natural history of the Mojave Desert Fiber plants Plants used in traditional Native American medicine This page was last modied on 11 April 2013 at 05:19. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-prot organization.

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