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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 middle 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.