Banana Yucca Seeds (yucca baccata) -20seeds-

Description: Banana Yucca Seeds (yucca baccata) -20 seeds- These were gathered wild in the Mojave desert Scientific Name: Yucca baccata Common Name: Banana Yucca Also Called: Banana Yucca, Blue Yucca, Datil, Datil Yucca, Fleshy-fruited Yucca, Spanish Bayonet Yucca baccata is one of the most important resources for southwestern North American indigenous people. Almost all parts of the Banana Yuccas are used including stalks, leaves, flowers, fruits and roots. The plant provides a food source that includes beverages, cakes, sauces, relishes, preserves and porridges; materials are also obtained and used for development of sporting items, ceremonial items, construction of dwellings, tools and more. Growth Form: Shrub, subshrub; growth form variable - stemless or with multiple stems in clumps and short ascending stems; (acaulescent or short caulescent); forming colonies of rosettes. Leaves: Green, bluish green; rigid, often twisted, margins brown and with coarse broad fibers (filiferous), curling, spine-tipped; leaves reaching up to 30 inches high and twice as wide. Flower Color: Cream, whitish-cream, may be tinged with purple; flowers showy, monecious, hanging or drooping; petals and sepals similar (tepals); inflorescence up to 3 feet or more high tall, flowering stalk often within the leaves; flowers paniculate; fruit indehiscent, succulent. Flowering Season: April to July. Elevation: 1,200 to 7,500 feet. Habitat Preferences: Dry rocky or sandy soils, rocky hillsides, mesas, desert grasslands, pinyon-juniper and oak woodlands. Banana Yucca is one of about 40 yucca species, all of which are native to the New World. Most yuccas have dry hard fruits, but the fruits of banana yucca are fleshy and succulent. They look roughly like short fat green bananas, thus the name. These fruits were a traditional food of the Apache and Navajo. They were prepared by roasting or baking, stripping out the seeds, pounding the remaining flesh into a pulp, forming the pulp into flat cakes, and sun-drying them for later use. The resulting product is said to be nutritious, sweet, and delicious. The fruits were often picked before maturity and ripened off the plant to keep wildlife from eating them before they could be harvested. Besides food, yuccas have many other traditional uses. The leaf blades can be woven into baskets, used to make brushes, or with the fleshy leaf tissue removed the remaining stiff fibers can be made into a combination needle and thread. The roots are prized as a natural soap. Yuccas are useful landscape plants in the Southwest. They are evergreen and have beautiful flowers in the spring. They are good barrier plants because the leaf tips are needle-sharp. Propagation is easy from seeds, rhizomes, stem cuttings, or offsets from the side of established plants.

Price: 10 USD

Location: Needles, California

End Time: 2024-10-27T03:13:20.000Z

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