Agavaceae
Agagve Family
(Liliales order)
- Tequila is made from the bottom of this plant
Yucca / Adam's Needle
Yucca filamentosa
- White bell-shaped flowers; pollinated by yucca moths
- Moths lay eggs in flower, and larvae eats some seeds (plant compensates by overproducing # of seeds)
- White threads on leaf margins
- Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) - confined to Mohave desert; Biblical reference, also an album by U2