Desert plant with sword-shaped leaves

Usage examples of yucca.

Baccata or datil yucca bears a fruit of exquisite taste which grow from five to seven inches long.

There were many unknown to Domini, but she recognised several varieties of palms, acacias, gums, fig trees, chestnuts, poplars, false pepper trees, the huge olive trees called Jamelons, white laurels, indiarubber and cocoanut trees, bananas, bamboos, yuccas, many mimosas and quantities of tall eucalyptus trees.

With her practical eye, Sister Hilaria observed the tillable acreage along the Yucca River and the river itself, which could be partially diverted for irrigation.

A kachina figure wearing a mask with oversized eyes and feathered tufts for ears was threatening one of the koshares with a whip of yucca.

They rode all day the day following through rolling hill country, the low caprock mesas dotted with cedar, the yuccas in white bloom along the eastfacing slopes.

Rows of yuccas were like green mantraps waiting to clash their sword-arms shut.

I could make out a number of features: clusters of tumbleweeds, like giant beach balls, creosote bushes, bayonet cactuses, yuccas, and the leggy branches of the palo verde trees.

But they veered to the right, behind one of the yuccas, and he could hear them pushing through some long, dry grass.

Tearing through sea grass, cockleburs, wild azaleas, yucca plants, and a thousand species of lowland brier bushes, Joey ran full out ahead of us for what seemed like a couple hundred yards.

The brakemen out on their box-cars, the miners up in their diggings, the lonely homesteaders in the sand hills of Yucca and Kit Carson Counties, begin to think of Denver, muffled in snow, full of food and drink and good cheer, and to yearn for her with that admiration which makes her, more than other American cities, an object of sentiment.

It was a southerly slope, and therefore semi-arid, covered with cercocarpus and yucca and some shrub that Madeline believed was manzanita.

There was also a variety of scrub oak, manzanita, chamisal, yucca, and mountain mahogany, all highly inflammable.

I, Yucca Blaine, have been selected referee because, bein’ from Chawed Ear, I got no prejudices either way.

Mesquite trees, Joshua trees, chollas, yuccas, prickly pears - she tried to remember all the spiny, weirdly shaped flora that grew in places like this.

It consists of live oak, pinion, mesquite, desert willow, greasewood, sage brush, palmilla, maguey, yucca and cacti and is mostly evergreen.