Biology:Yucca valida
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
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Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Tracheophytes |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Angiosperms |
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| 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 |
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| Yucca valida Brandegee
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Yucca valida is a plant species in the family Asparagaceae, native to the Mexican states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa. The common name is datilillo.[3]
Yucca valida is a large, branched species up to 7 m (23 feet) tall. Leaves are rigid and lance-like, up to 35 cm (14 inches) long. Dead leaves hang onto the plant below the living leaves, forming a skirt around the trunk. Flowers are white, forming juicy, edible black fruits up to 4.5 cm (1.8 inches) long.[4][5][6]
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- ↑ Solano, E.; Ayala-Hernández, M.M.; Arteaga, M.; Puente, R. (2020). "Yucca valida". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T117428776A117470222. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T117428776A117470222.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/117428776/117470222. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ Tropicos Yucca valida
- ↑ Brandegee, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 2, 2: 208, t. 11. 1889.
- ↑ W. Hodgson. Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert. University of Arizona Press.
- ↑ Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert. 2 vols. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- ↑ San Diego Natural History Museum, Ocean Oasis Field Guide
Wikidata ☰ Q1172612 entry
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