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Yucca faxoniana
Yucca faxoniana
Giant Yucca
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 0715 0629 (2015-07-09)

Copyright © 2015 Wynn Anderson

 
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  • date of photo  Mar 6, 2015
  • latitude 29.58993   longitude 102.99971     View on Google Maps.
  • location   TX Hiway FM2627, 6.5 miles southeast of Stillwell Store, 3.4 miles northwest of road junction to WMA headquarters, Black Gap Wildlife Management Area, (Brewster County, Texas, US)
  • family Asparagaceae
  • plant community   Chihuahuan Desert scrub at 2654'
  • notes   NOTE: contrast 2 different Yuccas, Y faxoniana in foreground with a uniformly hemispheric head of shorter, broad leaves, and Y. torreyi in background with irregular, 'shaggy' array of long slender leaves.
  • keywords: CDR, Chihuahuan Desert, Big Bend
  • contributor's ID #  CDR/BB 1377
  • photo category: Plant - tree/shrub

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Giant Yucca, Spanish Bayonet (photographer)
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