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Yucca gloriosa

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Yucca gloriosa is an evergreen shrubby plant growing 2.5 metres or more tall. The stems can be unbranched or, more commonly, branched, each plant eventually producing a clump of stems.

Uses

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Parts Used

Fruits, Flowers, Flowering stem, Roots.

Chemical Composition

It contains Eight new spiro- and furostanol glycosides that were tigogenin derivatives were isolated from pericarp of Yucca gloriosa fruit etc.[1]

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit
English


Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Dravya

Rasa

Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Habit

Evergreen shrub

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature

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Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
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Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

Seeds, Root cuttings.

How to plant/cultivate

Yucca gloriosa is a plant of the warm temperate to subtropical zones of southeastern N. America, though it is also often cultivated in the tropics, where it can succeed down to sea level.[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

Coastal dunes, Sandy soils of coastal plains.

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