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banana yucca
Yucca baccata
Colorado
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.5 ft. to 3.0 ft.
Spread: 2.5 ft. to 3.0 ft. - Growth Form
- Shrub
- Program Association
- Nature in the City, Xeriscape Incentive Program
- Wildlife Uses
- Amphibians/Reptiles, Hummingbirds, Large Mammals, Pollinators/ Invertebrates, Small Mammals
- Sun Requirements
- Full Sun
- Water Requirements
- Very Low
- Plant Community
- Foothills
- Season of Bloom
- May, June
- Flower Color
- White Shades
- Leaf Color
- Blue Shades, Green Shades
- Aggressiveness
- Not aggressive
- Design Considerations
- Drought Tolerant, Evergreen, Winter Interest
- Other Considerations
- Deer Tolerant, Rabbit Tolerant
- Duration
- Perennial
- Soil Type
- Rocky, Sandy
- Pests/Disease Prone
- No
- Hazards/Toxic
- Careful! Sharp Spines, Thorns Or Other Appendages.
Notes
Yuccas have a mutualistic relationship with the Tegeticula genus of moths. Females pollinate the yuccas while laying their eggs in the flowers. The larva, once hatched, will eat some of the seeds. If they eat too many, the yucca will abort the fruit, which will also kill the larva, making sure that the plant and the moth maintain their mutualistic relationship.
This species can be found primarily in the southwestern counties of Colorado.