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Family: Agavaceae	Genus: Yucca	Species: Yucca aloifolia Linn.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Dracaena lenneana Regel, Sarcoyucca aloifolia (Linn.) Linding, Yucca arcuata Haw.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Yucca	Flower Type	Panicle
English / Trade Name	Spanish Dagger	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Adam's Needle	Fruiting Period	Jan-March
Altitude	Up to 1000 m	Fruit Type	Drupe
Habit	Shrub	Fruit Details	Fruits pendent, baccate, without core, indehiscent, with fleshy, succulent, purple pulp. Seeds dull black, round-ovate.
Habitat	Grown as an ornamental plant. Also, it grows in sandy soils, especially on sand dunes and edges of brackish marshes	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Mexico; West Indies; Central America. Cultivated in most of the countries for ornamental	Bark Details	Arborescent
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Sukhna Choe Reserve Forest & Sukhna Lake , Sector 8, Sector 9, Sector 10, Sector 28, Sector 40, Sector 45	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	All basal (attached at base of plant)
		Leaf Shape	Lence shaped
Description of Species	Plants forming colonies of rosettes, arborescent, up to 5 m. Stems erect sometime declining. Leaves simple, leaf- blade erect, dark green, flattened or slightly concave, thick, rigid, margins sharply denticulate, rarely filiferous with straight fibers. Flowers creamy white, in pendent, panicle, somewhat glabrous or slightly pubescent; tepals spreading, connate basally lanceolate. Fruits pendent, baccate, without core, indehiscent, with fleshy, succulent, purple pulp. Seeds dull black, round-ovate.	Leaf Details	Leaves simple, leaf- blade erect, dark green, flattened or slightly concave, thick, rigid, margins sharply denticulate, rarely filiferous with straight fibers

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