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The appearance is surprising, but familiar if you’ve seen a yucca flower: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Yucca_gloriosa_10.JPG https://upl
by code_duck 8y ago
The appearance is surprising, but familiar if you’ve seen a yucca flower:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Yucca_gloriosa_10.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Yucca_gl...
or especially the New Mexico version http://www.americansouthwest.net/plants/agavoideae/yucca-elata5_l.html http://www.americansouthwest.net/plants/agavoideae/yucca-ela... (it’s the New Mexico State flower)
It’s also similar to what many grasses do. I suppose they’re all related to asparagus.
- flatline 8y agoFascinating - I live in NM and have seen both the yucca blossoms but also what appear to be the same thing as those agave spears. I had assumed they were all yucca around these parts as the plants that give off the tall spear blossoms are smaller than the agave I’ve seen in Mexico and SoCal, but I’m thinking they are just another agave variety.
- dmckeon 8y agoPerhaps the lechuguilla plant? http://www.saguaro-juniper.com/i_and_i/agavesNyuccas/agavesNyuccas.htm http://www.saguaro-juniper.com/i_and_i/agavesNyuccas/agavesN...
- flatline 8y agoThanks - I’m thinking of those agave at the bottom with the Black tips. Lots of cool plants in the desert!
- code_duck 8y agoGreat, I’ve been wondering what the shorter ones are. They look like the tall yuccas, but have thinner spines and never seem to get taller. Apparently they are Yucca baccata. Also it’s interesting to identify the various types of spiny grass.
- hinkley 8y agoThere's a yearly ritual on /r/whatisthisplant of misidentifying blue agave as yucca and vice versa.