While you might be under the impression you need to live in a tropical climate to grow a yucca plant, they actually make for excellent indoor companions. A genus of more than 40 perennial plants, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This spiky plant can thrive as a houseplant or part of your garden. Grumpy Cow Studios/Getty Images Yucca plants are exciting ...

If there’s one thing yucca plants don’t need, it’s excessive pampering. These plants naturally grow in the arid regions of the American Southwest, Mexico, and the Caribbean—so they can handle droughts ...

The plants that lend their name to California’s Joshua Tree National Park are not, technically, trees. They’re the largest member of the Yucca plant family, and they happen to grow in the form of a ...

The soaptree yucca, Yucca elata, is a slow-growing native plant that is well-worth waiting for. It is native to our region and the Chihuahuan desert, as well as northern Mexico. It’s very ...

New Mexico is home to a plant that perfectly symbolizes the state's tenacity and natural beauty – the yucca. In fact, the yucca has been the state's flower for decades. As a symbol of adaptation and ...

The pressures of succeeding in a society set up to take advantage of the weak and disadvantaged can feel crushing. It’s hard not to feel like a cog in an unforgiving machine — work, errands, social ...

If you took the Truffula tree imagined by Dr. Seuss, added more gnarled arms, and plunked it down in the Mojave Desert, you’d get the Joshua tree. Technically, the plant is known as the Yucca ...

Hoven Riley knew money was tight at his family’s West Texas cotton farm the year his mom asked him to go outside and dig up a yucca elata to use as a Christmas tree. The species, also known as the ...