yucca: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Yucca

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Cluster of Adam's needle plants (Yucca filamentosa) with tall stalks topped by dense clusters of white flowers rising above spiky green leaves.

Coevolution between the yucca moth and the yucca plant. (Top) A female yucca moth (Tegeticula yuccasella) pushing pollen into the stigma tube of the yucca flower while visiting the flower to deposit her eggs. (Bottom) Yucca moth larvae feeding on seeds in the yucca fruit.

mutualism: yucca moth

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