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Approximately 30 species comprise the genus Yucca, family Agavaceae (Alexander and Pond 1974). Vegetative characteristics include sword-shaped, evergreen leaves that are borne rosette-like on acaulescent to caulescent stems to 30 feet or more in height. Generally slow-growing, yuccas may require 3 to 7 years to flower from seed (Webber 1953). The clump-forming or rhizomatous habit of many yuccas is also an important means of reproduction because lack of rainfall may limit successful natural reproduction by seed (Webber 1953; Alexander and Pond 1974). Flowers are greenish to creamy white, sometimes tinged pink or purple, and borne erect in racemes or panicles. Most Yucca sp. are dependent upon moths for pollination and seed set. Fruits are dehiscent or indehiscent and contain hard black seeds. The basic chromosome number is reported to be x = 30 (2n = 60) (Fedorov 1974).
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Bentz, S.E., Talbott, HJ. (1992). Micropropagation of Yucca (Yucca glauca Nutt.). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) High-Tech and Micropropagation III. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07770-2_20
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