Yucca

Scientific Name: Yucca

Common Name: yucca

Symbol: YUCCA

Category: Monocot

Genus: Yucca

Family: Agavaceae

Family Common Name: Century-plant family

Order: Liliales

Class: Liliopsida

Subkingdom: Tracheobionta

Kingdom: Plantae

Edible: unknown

Flowering Yucca

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Scientific Name: Yucca

Common Name(s): Yuccas

Edible: yes

Medicinal: no

Parts Used: root, leaf

your_comforting_company
1 Sep, 2009

flower stalks are the most excellent friction-fire spindles I've come across. Leaves can be scraped and used to make fine cordage. Roots can be used to make soap by removing the brown bark, pulverizing the white root, and adding water, or dried completely for later use. Roots can be cleaned and boiled and mashed like potatoes as it is a root vegetable. A very valuable plant and should be harvested conservatively.

Current Rating: 0.5000

ravenscar
25 Oct, 2010

mostly i used yucca to gaurd the garden from deer and boar, but thank you guys for enlightening me on its food value. Yucca can also be used to make cordage. Cut some leaves as close to the base as possible(carefull!!!), then cut them into strips, along the fibers. then with a rolling pin or some cylinder roll across each strip with as much pressure as you can. braid it and you have some strong lashing to build a hut or whatnot with.

Current Rating: 0.0000

ravenscar 25 Oct, 2010	cultivation: dig up the yucca plants when they get high, say 3 feet tall, then cut them in half, dont be shy, if you do it right it should be a clean cut, replant the base, then pick a spot for your new plant. it will suffer at first, but once it retakes roots it will recover fast. NOTE: I have no idea what variaty i own, so you may have to do your own experimenting.
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crashdive123 28 Aug, 2009	Woody stemmed evergreen plants bristling with stiff, swordlike or daggerlike leaves.
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crashdive123 28 Aug, 2009	Flowers 6-petaled, waxy-white, showy, in large terminal clusters. Fruit picklelike in shape, roughly 6-sided. Numerous southwestern species.
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crashdive123 28 Aug, 2009	Use: Salad, cooked vegetable. The large petals make aninteresting addition to salads. Pulp from the ripe fruit of Spanish Bayonet (and other succulent-fruited species) can be eaten cooked: halve the fruit, scrape out the seeds and fiber, wrap in aluminum foil, and bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees F (173 degrees C).
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crashdive123 28 Aug, 2009	Spanish Bayonet, Y. aloifolia. Tall, erect. Stems thick, clublike; often covered with downward pointing old leaves, and daggerlike, minutely sas-toothed on margins. Flower clusters dense. Ripe fruit purplish, pulpy. Up to 15 feet (4.5 meters).
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crashdive123 28 Aug, 2009	Where found: Sandy woods, dunes. Coastal plain; Alabama to Florida, north to North Carolina. Flowers May - June.
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crashdive123 28 Aug, 2009	Yucca, Bear-Grass, Y. filmentosa. Leaves close to ground, in a basal roette; somewhat flexible. Note loose threads on leaf margins. Glowers in a large loose cluster atop a lender stalk 3-5 feet high. Ripe fruit dry capsules.
Current Rating: 0.0000

crashdive123 28 Aug, 2009	Where found: Sandy woods, clearing, old fields. Coastal plain from New Jersey south; a garden escape elsewhere. Flowers: May to September.
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