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6 unusual facts about Yucca


Chrysler Proving Grounds

The Arizona Proving Ground is a vehicle test facility established in 1955 in Yucca, Arizona.

Istle

Istle (also spelt ixtle) or tampico fiber is the general name for a hard plant fiber obtained from a number of Mexican plants, chiefly species of Agave and Yucca.

Liometopum apiculatum

These ants are usually found nesting in dead logs, under stones, or in decaying stalks of Yucca spp.

These ants also obtain nectar or pollen from bear grass and substances from the outside of the ovaries of the flowers of century plants (Agave scabra and Agave chisosensis) and Spanish dagger (Yucca spp.).

Nothrotherium

These browsing ground sloths consumed roots, stems, seeds, and leaves of various desert plants, such as the Yucca and Agave.

Sacramento Wash

I-40 joins the central section of the wash proper at Yucca, Arizona and the interstate follows the valley and wash west to meet the Colorado River at Needles.


Desert pocket mouse

These pocket mice live in soils that may be vegetated with creosote bush, palo verde, burroweed, mesquite, cholla and other cacti, and short, sparse grass, as well as in lower edges of alluvial fan with yucca, mesquite, grama, and prickle poppy.

Duffy's Peak

The soils of the area are moderately deep silt loams that support mesquite, yucca, cacti, and grasses.

Keenwild

The band, thru extensive touring, has played venues such as Modified Arts, The Electric Theater (St. George, Utah), Ridglea Theater (Fort Worth, Texas), Java Joz (murrieta, ca), Madlins (Temecula, Ca), Temecula CRC (Temecula, Ca), Water Canyon Coffee (Yucca, Ca), Beatnik Cafe (Joshua Tree, Ca), Zia Records (Tempe, Az), Santa Fe Cafe (Fullerton, Ca) The Dirt (Las Cruces, Nm) and The Boondocks (Cedar City, Ut).

KJSM

KJSM-LP, a defunct low-power radio station (97.1 FM) formerly licensed to serve Yucca Valley, California, United States

L22

Yucca Valley Airport, a public use airport in Yucca Valley, California, United States

Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park

The gardens feature a greenhouse and hundreds of cacti and succulents from around the world, including acacia, agave, small barrel cactus, cholla, ocotillo, prickly pear, saguaro, sotol (Dasylirion wheeleri), and yucca.

Mona Freeman

Also in 1952, she was called a "vest pocket Venus" by sculptor Yucca Salamunich because her proportions were the same as those of the Venus de Milo but three-quarter size.

Nothrotheriops

Nothrotheriops behaved like all typical ground sloths of North and South America, feeding on various plants like the desert globemallow, cacti, and yucca.

Tonto National Monument

Other common plants include: cholla, prickly pear, hedgehog, and barrel cactus (flowering from April to June); yucca, sotol, and agave; creosote bush and ocotillo; palo verde and mesquite trees; an amazing variety of colorful wild flowers in good years (February to March); and a lush riparian area which supports large Arizona Walnut, Arizona Sycamore, and hackberry trees.

Trinchera Cave Archeological District

The Louden-Henritze Museum of Archaeology, located in Trinidad on the grounds of the Trinidad State Junior College, replica of the Trinchera Cave rockshelter exhibits examples of items made by pre-historic people, including pottery, projectile points, and perishable items made from plants, such as braided ropes, grass mats and yucca sandals.

Yucca Corridor, Los Angeles

The Yucca Corridor got its name at the first general meeting of the Ivar Hill Community Association in April, 1991, where President Joe Shea proposed the name to help city officials become accustomed to thinking of it as one issue.

Yucca gigantea

Yucca gigantea may be subject to a number of pests including scale, Yucca moth borers, and black weevils.


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