What is Yucca?
{{for|the plant called Yuca|Manioc}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Yucca'' | image = Yucca baccata whole.jpg | image_width = 240px | image_caption = ''Yucca baccata'' in [[Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area|Red Rock Canyon]], [[Nevada]] | regnum = [[Plant]]ae | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]] | classis = [[Liliopsida]] | ordo = [[Asparagales]] | familia = [[Agavaceae]] | genus = '''''Yucca''''' | genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]] }} '''Yucca''' is a [[family (biology)|family]] of [[shrub]]s and [[tree]]s, related to the [[agave]]s. There are between 40 and 50 different [[species|kinds]] of Yucca. All come from the [[heat|hot]] and [[:wikt:dry|dry]] places in [[North America|North]] and [[Central America]], as well as the [[Caribbean]]. They have a very special way of [[pollination]]. There is an [[animal]], the [[Yucca moth]], which does the pollination. It also lays its [[Egg (biology)|eggs]] in the plant. The [[larva]]e will eat some of the [[seed]]s, but not all of them. In many parts of the world, yuccas are grown as [[ornament]]al [[flower]]s. <gallery> Image:Yucca decipiens.jpg|A Yucca tree (Y. decipiens) Image:Yucca thompsoniana flowers.jpg|Yucca Thomsonia (flowering) Image:Yucca gloriosa 10.JPG|Yucca gloriosa </gallery> {{commons}} {{Biology-stub}} [[Category:Agavaceae]]