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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Agavaceae (リュウゼツラン科) > Yucca aloifolia
Yucca L. (イトラン)Senjuran (センジュラン, 千寿蘭), Spanish bayonet, aloe yucca and dagger plantLife form: evergreen, perennial shrub tree (4-6 m tall) Distribution: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of USA - Yucatan coast - Bermuda - Caribbean Habitat: on sandy soils, represented by sand dunes along the coasts Use: ornamental (drought-tolerant), gardening, landscape plant, and others |
Cultivars cv. marginata (キンポウラン, 金宝蘭), yellow leaf margin introduced to Japan in the mid-Meiji era (fruiting in Japan was firstly reported from the Koishikawa Botanical Garden cv. variegata (サンシキセンジュラン, 三色千寿蘭), white stria on the leaves |
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[1-6] in the Koishikawa Botanical Garden (小石川植物園), the University of Tokyo, on March 16 2017.