Biology:Yucca potosina
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Potosí palm soapwort Potosí palm | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Plantae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Tracheophytes |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Angiosperms |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Monocots |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Asparagales |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Asparagaceae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Agavoideae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Yucca |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">Y. potosina |
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| Yucca potosina Rzed.
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Yucca potosina, English common name Potosí palm soapwort or Potosi palm, Rzed.[2] is a plant species in the family Asparagaceae, native to the east central Mexico from Hidalgo to San Luís Potosí. It is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental, but not widely.
Yucca potosina is a rather large tree-like species up to 8 m tall, with occasional branching. Leaves are stiff, narrow, rough, up to 100 cm long. Inflorescence is up to 120 cm long. Flowers are white, elongated, up to 50 mm long and 15 mm across.[2][3]
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- ↑ Solano, E.; Puente, R.; Ayala-Hernández, M.M. (2020). "Yucca potosina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T117428381A117470157. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T117428381A117470157.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/117428381/117470157. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rzedowski, Ciencia; Revista Hispano-Americana de Ciencias Puras y Aplicadas. México 15: 90 1955.
- ↑ CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.
Wikidata ☰ Q2601648 entry
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