Scientific Name: Yucca baccata
?Perennial from the Agave Family
?Native to the Sonoran Desert
?Pollinated by yucca moths that rely exclusively on this plant. The moths themselves depend on the yucca, because they lay their eggs on the ovary. When the eggs hatch, they feed upon some of the developing yucca seeds.
?Has banana-like fruits
?During this plants lifetime it will flower many times; always recuperating for several years afterward.
?Native American ate fruit and made rope from the green blades; leaves were used to make baskets, sandals and mats.

Photo: Taken at Brown's Ranch on October 26, 2007. For more photos, click on camera icon.

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