Your Yowser Yucca

February 10, 2024 00:04:19
Your Yowser Yucca
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Your Yowser Yucca

Feb 10 2024 | 00:04:19

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Show Notes

When I used to give talks I would always show photos and talk about our regional yucca species; Yucca elata, Y. baccata and Yucca madrensis… Yucca madrensis, by the way is the former Yucca schottii, but here’s what’s cool about this resident of the Madrean Evergreen Woodlands; it’s pollinated by a different moth species than Y. baccata or Y. elata. They each have their own yucca moth species doing the pollinating. Cool? Very! Well there’s some more to know about this yucca, soo, you could pull a book or two off the shelf or you can grill your favorite nursery person with…

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