Pictured is a yucca Yucca elata. Its seeds, flowers, and buds are edible. Puebloans weaved rope, sandals, and mats from the long fibers in the leaves and crushed the roots to make soup. Uniquely adapted moths pollinate each yucca species.Galleries:Gran Quivira Ruins, YuccaKeywords:Gran Quivira, Las Humanas, Salinas Pueblo Missions National
Monument, fibers, mission, plants, pueblo, pueblo diet, soaptree, textiles, yuccaPhoto Location: Gran Quivira Ruins, 25 miles south of Mountainair, NMPhotographer: Dr. Roy WinkelmanDate of Photo: 02/19/2014Device Make: CanonDevice Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark IIExposure Time: 0.0166667F Number: 22Original Dimensions: 5616×3744Picture Orientation: LandscapeGPS Coordinates: 34°15'34.99"N 106°5'30.78"WPicture Number: 26269
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