yucca

The scientific name was given because its leaves resemble those of yuccas.

Yuccas and cacti can be found at the south end of the property.

In most of the repeat photography, few Yuccas appear to live longer than about 40 years.

In many parts of the world, yuccas are grown as ornamental flowers.

No Yuccas or other plants have persisted over the 66 years between the dates of the photographs.

If the moth were to become extinct, the yuccas would never set seed.

Yuccas can be pollinated only by a certain species of moth.

The stunted trees were lower than the giant bushes and yuccas.

If the yuccas disappeared, the moth's caterpillars could not develop.

If all the yuccas were eradicated or died, the moth population would die out in a single year.

The paths were overgrown with weeds, and most of the yuccas looked sick.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

They danced there every night: the streetlights shining through the yuccas in the back yard.

Yuccas have adapted to an equally vast range of climatic and ecological conditions.

I crave agaves and yuccas, plants with an edge.

Yuccas have a history of being useful.

I keep dracaena and yuccas and other things like that.

Yuccas are widely grown as ornamental plants in gardens.

So did the spiky leaves of yuccas, some all green, others striped with cream, which anchor the garden in winter.

The wildflowers and three-foot-high yuccas are blooming in the surrounding desert.

Yuccas spread rather slowly, and are not likely to become an invasive pest as is the case with many other garden escapees.

Yuccas are widely grown as architectural plants providing a dramatic accent to landscape design.

Take a wander round the grounds, where yuccas and jacarandas spring from carefully tended gardens.

I studied the fascinating forms of the cactus and the yuccas and the Joshua trees.

Barrel cactuses and yuccas grew sparsely on the red-brown landscape.