Yucca treculeana

Description

A shrub or small tree. It grows 3 m tall. The trunk is 13 cm across. The stem only branches near the top. The leaves are stiff and have a sharp point. They are strap like and 90 cm long by 7.5 cm wide. They are in large clumps at the ends of the stems or branches. The flowering shoots come from above the leaves and the flowers and whit or pale purple. The fruit is a capsule 10 cm long by 2.5 cm wide.

Edible Uses

The flowers are pickled or cooked like cabbage. The fruit is eaten as a snack or fermented to make an alcoholic drink.

Traditional Uses

The flowers are pickled or cooked like cabbage. The fruit is eaten as a snack or used to make an alcoholic drink.

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Distribution

It is a subtropical plant.

Where It Grows

Asia, Australia, Indonesia, Mexico, North America, SE Asia, USA,

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds or by cuttings

Notes

There are about 40 Yucca species. Also put in the family Agavaceae.

Synonyms

Also Known As

Belati spanyol, Palma pita

References (8)

• Astrada, E., et al, 2007, Ethnobotany in the Cumbres de Monterrey National Park, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 3:8
• Beckstrom-Sternberg, Stephen M., and James A. Duke. "The Foodplant Database." http://probe.nalusda.gov:8300/cgi-bin/browse/foodplantdb.(ACEDB version 4.0 - data version July 1994)
• Harter, J.(Ed.), 1988, Plants. 2400 copyright free illustrations. Dover p 14.5
• Hedrick, U.P., 1919, (Ed.), Sturtevant's edible plants of the world. p 690
• Kermath, B. M., et al, 2014, Food Plants in the Americas: A survey of the domesticated, cultivated and wild plants used for Human food in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. On line draft. p 935

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