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Yucca filamentosa

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Yucca filamentosa is an evergreen shrub producing a rosette of spear-shaped leaves 50 - 75cm long and 2 - 4cm wide from a long, thick, mainly underground stem with a very short, unbranched, above-ground stem up to 50cm tall. The plant forms a cluster of rosettes plus one or more flowering stems up to 4.5 metres tall.

Uses

Parts Used

Chemical Composition

It contains phenolic constituents of Y. schidigera etc.[1]

Common names

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

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature

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Flower

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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

How to plant/cultivate

Yucca filamentosa is a plant of semi-arid regions in southern N. America and can tolerate occasional short-lived temperatures down to around -15°c.[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

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