Yucca

“Yucca is a genus of American plants, natural order Liliaceæ popularly known as Adam’s needle. They are evergreen shrubs, their stem tending to arborescence, crowned by a circle of linear, lanceolate, rigid leaves, from the center of which rises a large panicle of snow-white, whitish-green or cream-colored flowers."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Keywords

yucca, adam's needle, adams needle, adam needle, evergreen shrubs, arborescence

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Flowers and Shrubs: W-Z

Source

Everybody's Cyclopedia (New York, NY: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1912)

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