New Mexico is home to a plant that perfectly symbolizes the state's tenacity and natural beauty – the yucca. In fact, the yucca has been the state's flower for decades. As a symbol of adaptation and ...
Yucca flower gratin. Credit: Copyright 2016 Wendy Petty With its widely recognizable dagger-sharp leaves, the yucca plant (Yucca spp.), offers up a particularly tasty ...
Keep your yuccas thriving for years ...
Native to South and Central America, yucca plants have a sturdy cane from which strappy sword-like leaves develop. It’s a relative of dracaena, for which it’s often mistaken, but it has stiffer leaves ...