Joshua tree
பாலைத் தாவரம்
Yucca brevifolia Engelm.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 7.6 m
- wide
- 4.6 m
Asparagaceae
Formerly Clistoyucca arborescens, Clistoyucca brevifolia, Sarcoyucca brevifolia, Yucca arborescens
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. Nevada to SE. California and Mexico (Sonora)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from University of Arizona Arboretum and Desert-tropicals, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 7.6 mRead from University of Arizona Arboretum and Desert-tropicals, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: University of Arizona Arboretum 20–30 ft; Desert-tropicals 25–25 ft
- Spread
- 4.6 mRead from University of Arizona Arboretum and Desert-tropicals, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: University of Arizona Arboretum 6–15 ft; Desert-tropicals 15–15 ft
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from University of Arizona Arboretum, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, greenRead from University of Arizona Arboretum and Desert-tropicals, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: University of Arizona Arboretum cream; Desert-tropicals green, white
- Coldest it survives
- -15.1 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from University of Arizona Arboretum and Desert-tropicals, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: University of Arizona Arboretum -12.2 °C; Desert-tropicals -18 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Spanish
- Izote de desierto
- Finnish
- Joosuanjukka, joosuanpuu
- Hebrew
- עץ יהושע
- Slovenian
- kratkolistna juka
- Vietnamese
- Cây Joshua
- Chinese
- 小叶丝兰, 短叶丝兰
- Tamil
- பாலைத் தாவரம்
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- University of Arizona Arboretum, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Desert-tropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Yucca brevifolia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.