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Yucca elata is a
perennial plant, with
common names that
include soaptree,
soaptree yucca, soapweed, and palmella. It is
native to
southwestern North America...
- unrelated, yuca, also
called c****ava or
manioc (Manihot esculenta).
Roots of
soaptree yucca (Yucca elata) are high in
saponins and are used as a
shampoo in Native...
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Verde trees and
foothill and blue paloverde;
California fan palm; agaves;
soaptree yucca,
Spanish bayonet,
desert spoon, and red yucca; ironwood; mesquite;...
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prickly pear
cactus can be found. Furthermore, paloverde,
saguaro cactus,
soaptree yucca,
cholla guera, triangle-leaf bursage,
tumbleweed and
velvet mesquite...
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typical of this setting; it
includes creosote bush (Larrea tridentata),
soaptree (Yucca elata),
tarbush (Flourensia cernua),
broom dalea (Psorothamnus scoparius)...
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turpentine bush,
yellow bells, golden-flowered agave,
mescal agave, sotol,
soaptree yucca, beargr****, Engelman’s
prickly pear,
fishhook barrel cactus, cane...
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however the New
Mexico Centennial Blue Book from 2012
references the
soaptree yucca (Yucca elata) as one of the more
widespread species in New Mexico...
- cottonwood,
domestic poplar, aspen, elm, mesquite, willow,
saguaro cactus, and
soaptree yuccas.
Nests are
located from 9 to 15 ft (2.7 to 4.6 m)
above the ground...
- The cane
cholla and
other cacti, as well as
desert succulents like the
soaptree yucca, are able to
store water through the hot
summers and dry winters...
- antagonism.
Their bore
holes are a
common sight on
trunks of such
plants as the
soaptree yucca. Two of the
three yucca moth
genera in particular,
Tegeticula and...
