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Yucca - Yucca glauca - make a lovely, unusual addition to gardens and landscapes, however, their roots make a wonderful natural ingredient in shampoo, which leaves hair glossy.
The word yucca is a noun, a plant. Example sentence: The yucca is a flowering plant with tall spikes of blossoms.
Yucca filamentosa, the most common type, Yucca brevifolia (Joshua tree), Yucca aloifolia (Spanish bayonet), and Yucca gloriosa (Spanish dagger). Yucca baccata and Yucca glauca, are called soap plant.
Yucca is the English word for yucca.
No. Kangaroos do not eat yucca. Yucca is not native to Australia.
"Yucca" is the genus part of the scientific name (Genus, species).
The yucca plant and yucca moth have a mutualistic relationship where both species benefit. The yucca moth pollinates the yucca flowers and lays its eggs in the plant's ovaries. In return, the yucca moth larvae feed on the yucca seeds, ensuring their survival.
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You can wash laundry with yucca. There are a lot of different types of yucca. I have soapweed yuccas, (yucca glauca). As I understand all yuccas have natural saponins (soap qualities), but you may want to check which yucca you have, and what parts of the plant to use. I use the roots, but I've heard of being able to use the leaves and stem too. The root is stringy and fibrous. If you just throw the root in your washing machine, your going to have a mess. I kind of beat the root up a bit, to break it open, then I put it in a cheese cloth type bag. I use a WonderWash, a hand cranked barrel washer. I throw the bag in and agitate with my clothes. I use yucca to wash my body and hair too, I stick some of the broken up root right in a used water bottle, leaving some head space to shake it up. You're not going to see the lather and suds that most people are use to with commercial laundry soap. I think the trick there is adding glycerin. Good luck! i can see you right now
A Yucca Moth caterpillar eats yucca plants. The adult moth lays her eggs on yucca plants.
Not sure if this helps but there is Yucca Rostrata which is also known as Beaked or Big Bend Yucca and Yucca de smetiana also Yucca Brevifolia or Joshua Tree.
The Yucca Moth can only lay it's eggs in the yucca flowers, but it helps the yucca, fertilizing the flowers. The yucca needs the moth to spread pollen, and the moth needs the yucca for a place to lay it's eggs. This is mutualism.