Your Yowser Yucca

Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Your Yowser Yucca

Jan 21 2025 | 00:04:19

00:00 / 00:04:19

Show Notes

When I would give talks I would always show photos and talk about our regional yucca species; Yucca elata, Yucca 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! The photos are mine.

Other Episodes

Episode 0

May 29, 2022 • 00:05:14

Soaptree Yucca and its Beautiful Moth

The miller moths that showed up at our little homestead are the adult of the army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) and they migrate from lower...

Episode

November 07, 2018 • 00:05:10

King of the Dogs and Queen of the Night

When I initially wrote this story I was using Lyman Benson’s The Cactus of Arizona as my reference and the queen of the night...

Episode 0

May 05, 2024 • 00:04:00

Lifted by Friends

A story about how friends always save the day. Alleluia. Photo credit: Marian