View photos of the edible and medicinal plant, Yucca brevifolia (Joshua tree), profiled in the Wild Edible Series: California: Vol 1, Nevada, and Sonoran.
View photos of the edible and medicinal plant, Yucca schidigera (Mohave yucca), profiled in Medicinal Plants of the American Southwest and in the Wild Edible Series: California: Vol 1 and Nevada.
View photos of the edible and medicinal plant, Yucca angustissima (Narrowleaf yucca), profiled in the Wild Edible Series: Colorado, New Mexico, Sonoran, and Utah and Medicinal Plants of the American Southwest.
A passage from Medicinal Plants of the American Southwest:
Therefore, bacterial end–products are unable to exert an inflammatory effect because they literally are stuck to Yucca’s saponins, making absorption into systemic circulation less likely.
A passage from Wild Edible Plants of Utah:
The immature stalk of any Yucca species is harvested for food – even sweet–fruited species (previous page). Yucca stalk’s palatability has everything to do with collection timing.
