Plant & Flower Names · Entry

Yucca

Spanish (from Taino)

“cassava (applied by mistake)”

Where it comes from

yuca, a Taino word for cassava, applied to this plant by mistake by early European botanists

Fun Fact

The name was borrowed from a different plant, and most yuccas rely on yucca moths for pollination, one of the best-known partnerships in botany.

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