Yucca baccata Torr.

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Origin and Habitat: Yucca baccataSN|29966]]SN|29966]] is a common species of yucca native to the deserts of the southwestern United States (Arizona, Californis, Colorado Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah) and northwestern Mexico (Sonora and Chihuahua). It is also reported in the wild in Colombia.
Altitude range: 400–2500 metres above sea level.
Habita and Ecology: It can be found in several habitat types, including dry Joshua-tree woodland, Pinyon-Juniper, Sagebrush, and ponderosa pine colonies. It is associated with Yucca schidigera, Yucca faxonianaSN|30019]]SN|29981]], Yucca arizonicaSN|29983]]SN|29983]], Yucca faxonianaSN|30019]], Agave utahensisSN|581]]SN|581]], and other Agave species. It can be found among Sclerocactus, Pediocactus, Navajoa, and Toumeya species. Although flowers usually appear every year, fruit may not always develop. Yucca is pollinated exclusively by a small white yucca moth that stays in the flower during the day and at night carries the pollen from flower to flower. When it does develop, the banana-shaped, fleshy fruit of the Yucca baccataSN|29966]]SN|29966]] matures. Y. baccata specimens from the higher, mountainous regions of the Rocky Mountains is winter hardy and tolerates extreme conditions.

Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Datil yucca, Banana yucca, Wide leaf yucca, Blue yucca, Spanish bayonet, Soapweed
ARABIC ( لعربية ): يوكا توتية
CATALAN (Català): Dàtil Iuca, Banana Iuca
HUNGARIAN (Magyar): Bogyós pálmaliliom, Bogyós jukka
NAVAJO (Diné Bizaad): Tsáʼásziʼ bideeʼí

 

Description: Yucca baccata, also called "Banana yucca", is recognized by having (usually) no leafy stem, the crowns sitting level with the ground varies from 30 to 90 cm tall and wide. The flower stems are usually short nested inside or just above the stiff leaves, while the fruits are quite long and banana shaped, turning reddish when ripe. In the spring of the year, a green stalk that looks a little like an asparagus emerges from the crown of the plant. Later, the young flowers start to develop, opening at the top of the stalk first. At full development, the flower stalk lengthens to support the large creamy white flowers. The yucca in blossom is very handsome and is during this stage that the plant is most attractive to photographers and painters and is often sought for book covers and calendars depicting the great Southwest. Yucca baccata occurs in a large area of the North American deserts and exhibits much variation across its range. Two varieties are recognized, the nominate form and var. brevifolia.
Derivation of specific name: The species gets its common name "banana yucca" from its banana-shaped fruit. The specific epithet "baccata" means "with berries." Banana yucca is closely related to the Mojave yucca (Yucca schidigera), with which it is interspersed where their ranges overlap; hybrids between them occur.
Stems; Short or non existent. Stems, if present, 1 to 6(-24), aerial or subterranean, usually shorter than 0.3 m (rarely up to 2.5 m long and decumbent), simple or sometimes branched.
Rosettes: ± open, solitary or in small clumps.
Leaves: Evergreen; swordlike, spine tipped, (30-)50–75(-100) cm long, 2–6 cm wide dark green to bluish green, concavo-convex, rigid, scabrous or glaucous, expanded base ± 10 cm wide reddish; Leaf margins brown coarse, curling (var. baccata) or fibrous-shredding (var. brevifolia).
Blooming season; It flowers in the spring, starting in April to July depending on locality and altitude.
**Inflorescence: Erect, paniculate, dense, ovoid, not especially tall, typically 60-80(-150) cm arising completely within or extending 1/4 beyond rosettes, glabrous, rarely slightly pubescent and purple-tinged. Peduncle scapelike (20-)60-80 cm long.
Flowers: Pendent. Perianth 5 to 13 cm long, nearly as wide, bell-shaped, tepals lanceolate (outer narrower), connate basally to form shallow floral cup 7–12 mm, usually cream-colored, occasionally tinged with purple inside, 4.5–13 cm, reddish brown outside. Filaments connate proximally into collarlike structure, 3.2–12 mm, fleshy, pubescent; anthers 5–7 mm. Pistil 5–8 cm long. Ovary 0.7–1.2 cm. Style 5–7 mm; stigmas distinct.
Blooming season (in habitat): March-May (spring), June-August (summer).
Fruits: Leathery, baccate, indehiscent, fleshy, succulent, sweet when young, eventually pendent, (5-)8–18(-23) cm long and 4-6(-7.5) cm across, and cylindrical. Fruits appear from May to September, depending on the elevation.
Seeds:*** Rough, dull black, obovate, wingless, (3-)7-8(11) mm long and wide, 1-2(-3) mm thick; they ripen in 6–8 weeks.

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