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Yucca gloriosa
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Family:
AGAVACEAE
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Citation: Yucca gloriosa L., Sp. Pl. 319. 1753.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Spanish Dagger
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Description:
Tall stemless or shortly trunked (not more than a meter) aloe-like plant. Leaves lanceolate, yellow edged, flat with raised margins, apices sharp pointed, red. Inflorescence an erect, large panicle with alternating branches, usually over-topping the leaves. Flowers hermaphrodite, creamy-white, produced in profussion on a solitary, central scape, drooping, bell-shaped and as large as a hen's egg. Perianth-lobes waxy. Stamens 6, embracing the ovary. Style connate forming a central canal; stigmas 3, each bilobed forming a stigmatic chamber below.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
April-June
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plants
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Distribution:
Native of America
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White, Creamy
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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