yucca
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Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers;
Warmer regions of North America (synset 112502536)subtypes:- spanish bayonet, yucca aloifolia - a stiff yucca with a short trunk; found in the southern United States and tropical America; has rigid spine-tipped leaves and clusters of white flowers
- spanish bayonet, yucca baccata - tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers
- joshua tree, yucca brevifolia - a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers
- spanish dagger, yucca carnerosana - arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers
- soap tree, soap-weed, soapweed, yucca elata - tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States
- adam's needle, adam's needle-and-thread, needle palm, spoonleaf yucca, yucca filamentosa - yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
- bear grass, yucca glauca - yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers
- spanish dagger, yucca gloriosa - yucca of southeastern United States similar to the Spanish bayonets but with shorter trunk and smoother leaves
- bear grass, yucca smalliana - yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers
- our lord's candle, yucca whipplei - yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers
belongs to: genus yucca - tropical American plants with stiff lancelike leaves and spikes of white blossoms; sometimes considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae
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