Yucca_grandiflora

<i>Yucca grandiflora</i>

Yucca grandiflora

Species of flowering plant

Yucca grandiflora Gentry[2] is a plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora.[3][4][5]

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Common names include Sahualiqui and Large-flowered Yucca. The Pima Bajo peoples of the region sometimes eat the immature fruits.[6]

It has a wide range, although it has a very low population density where it occurs.[1]

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  1. [1]
    Ayala-Hernández, M.M.; Solano, E. (2020). "Yucca grandiflora". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T117427994A117470067. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T117427994A117470067.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
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    H.S. Gentry, Madrono 14: 51-53. 1957.
  3. [3]
    Gentry, H.S. 1972 The Agave family in Sonora. USDA Agricultural Handbook 399.
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    Southwestern Biodiversity Yucca grandiflora, map
  5. [5]
    Laferrière, Joseph E. 1994. Vegetation and flora of the Mountain Pima village of Nabogame, Chihuahua, Mexico. Phytologia 77:102-140.
  6. [6]
    Laferrière, Joseph E., Charles W. Weber and Edwin A. Kohlhepp. 1991. Use and nutritional composition of some traditional Mountain Pima plant foods. Journal of Ethnobiology 11(1):93-114.
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