| It remains to be shown quantitatively that selective fruit abortion in yuccas can increase plant fitness. |
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| They helped raise the young, gather food such as yuccas and other plants and even hunted smaller animals such as rodents and turtles. |
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| His slides showed examples of phormium, umbellifors, ferns and grasses, such as yuccas, angelica, tree ferns, bamboos and pampas grass. |
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| The often steep and rugged lower slopes of the mountains are dominated by cacti, agaves, yuccas, and thorn-bearing shrubs. |
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| Farther upland, usually between 3,000 and 5,000 feet, is chaparral, where scrub oaks, manzanitas, and various other shrubs join cacti and yuccas. |
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| For yuccas, Addicott notes that the baccate species typically lose more seeds to yucca moth larvae than do the dry-fruited capsular yuccas. |
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| At each curve, my father's old Plymouth's headlight beams swept the dark yuccas and bougainvillea. |
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| This particular location is unique because you catch both redwoods and yuccas in one view. |
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| Blue rescue retains its color all winter, as do yuccas ' sword-like leaves. |
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| Not a few of these are also lilyworts, such as asphodels, fritillarias, day lilies, funkias, or plantain lilies, phormiums, yuccas, and aspidistras. |
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| They lead into pine forests as well as impressive stands of coastal sage scrub and chaparral communities notable for Mojave yuccas, prickly pear, and agaves. |
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| Hot yellows and reds are very popular right now and in the last five years agaves and yuccas have been making impressive architectural statements in gardens. |
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| A number of hardy succulents such as adeniums, echinocactus, aloes, sedums, crassulas and yuccas may be conveniently used in rock gardens. |
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| The yuccas give the refuge an otherworldly, Seussian air, as though the Lorax might hop out at any moment. |
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| Many Cordyline australis are also planted in the area, though these are not true palms, but more closely related to yuccas and agaves. |
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| We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers. |
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