What is Yucca Schidiger?

Yucca Schidiger is a large desert plant also known as Mojave Yucca. It is the most common Yucca, which was found wildly in the southwestern deserts of the United States and Baja California. It is also a common horticultural specimen in the southwest. This cultivated plant is sometimes also known as yucca shidiger .

Mojave Yucca generally has several stems and can live at the age of hundreds of years. Usually grows to 2 to 20 ft (0.5 to 5 m), with leaves of the leaves at the ends of the branches and a furrow suitcase. The leaves are usually 12 to 59 V (30 to 150 cm) and 0.8 to 4.3 inches (2 to 11 cm) wide with sharp, pointed tips up to 0.5 V (12 mm) in length. The tree grows very slowly and generally produces two to four sets of leaf groups - each consists of about six leaves - a year.RS once. Yucca Schidiger has a symbiotic relationship with a particular moth that pollinate these flowers, but the seeds are rarely formed. The plant generally spreads reproducing, through the germination of the roots. Sometimes Ovo is formedCe, which is consumed by small mammals.

yucca schidiger is generally found from the sea level to 5,900 ft (1,800) m. Usually it is seen in the soils containing many gravel, although it can tolerate salt and alkaline soils. In its native areas it usually occurs in areas with winter rains, but without summer rainfall.

Except for the headless Yucca by Yuccas should be generally planted from the sidewalks. This is primarily that the sharp peaks of their leaves do not hurt passers -by. Looking from a distance they also create striking landscape plants. It is best to plant yucca schidiger in well -drained soil, in full ranging, and give it only occasional soaking during the winter months. It should not be connected in the summer.

There are a number of other Yucks from the southwest that can be a gardening interest. One of them is yucca rigida , blue yucca. Comes from Mexico and may require a requiredAt protection during winter. Blue yucca flowers in spring or early summer and grows to the same height as yucca schidiger .

is the yucca elata , soaptree yucca. This slow -growing Yucca generally becomes a high tree of 20 ft (5 m). It bursts at the end of spring and summer, although it does not have to bloom annually.

Mojave Yucca was very used by the indigenous populations of its native growing areas. Yucca leaves have fibers that were often used to produce fabric, rope and sandals. It is edible fruit and flowers and the seeds were grounded into flour. Extract from Yucca Schidiger is commercially available and uses a wide range of purposes, from use as fertilizers to a folder in livestock and domestic feed.