June is the month when agave and yucca plants flower and the phone and e-mail messages pile up as these succulents bloom across the county. There is much confusion about agave and yucca – which is ...

Some plants and trees are best left to cooler fall for planting, but cactus, agave and yucca aren’t shocked at all by summer temperatures. “Cacti, agave and yucca are acclimated to our climate; this ...

On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca. These very large plants are up to five hundred years old with multiple, tall ...

Dated Eskimo Ruins of an Inland Zone (pp. 113-134) J. L. Giddings, Jr. Methods for the Identification of the Leaf Fibers of Mescal (Agave), Yucca (Yucca), Beargrass (Nolina) and Sotol (Dasylirion) ...

There are counterfeit yuccas in our midst and they are not Joshua trees. Not all plants that have spine-tipped leaves and whorled leaf arrangements are Joshua trees. In fact, some plants with these ...

Tom Spencer and Texas AgriLife entomologist Wizzie Brown identify... Tom Spencer and Texas AgriLife entomologist Wizzie Brown identify the pests and explain how to control the pests on our agaves, ...