I always want to add an extra T when I write Yucca baccata, but no, two Cs and one T is correct. The specific epithet baccata is from Latin and means berry. The 6-8” long fleshy fruit look more like bananas than berries, so the common name banana yucca gets it right.
Anyway, I hope you’re getting some time away from your home and out into nature…out into the wild. Get out and make some biome memories and we’ll compare notes soon!
The photos are mine and taken at the base of the Winchester Mountains.
We love our annual Christmas tree hunt and it’s been going on for a long time. I have 35 mm slides of hunts from...
The little rant at the beginning of this show was spontaneous and was prompted by the trial of Scott Warren, a fellow who was...
The flood that I’m talking about in this show was certainly the biggest we had experienced at our place and some folks that have...
