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Agavaceae / Agavae Adam's Needle (Yucca filamentosa)
Adam's Needle is also known as Yucca, Spanish Bayonet and Bear Grass. ...
Adam's Needle Yucca, Desert Candle
Large clusters of white or violet flowers bloom on these evergreens, which are stemless and can reach the size of small trees. Some flowers are fragrant at night.
Adam's Needle Color Guard (Yucca filamentosa)
Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard' is a tough-as-nails plant that is ideal for a no-maintenance garden.
'Adam' is a tea rose which produces large, fully double, amber to apricot blooms that appear in clusters on short canes. Open flowers are often quartered. A vigorous bush or climber on a short wall. Large, dark green foliage.
Adam & Eve is a reference to the growth habit of the bulbs as the leaf and flower arise from the current seasons growth (Eve) while last years bulb (Adam), from which forth sprang Eve, is still present.
Variegated Adam's Needle
Description
Yucca filamentosa 'Bright Edge' is a striking Yucca with leaves that are edged with a creamy white to yellow color.
Yucca filamentosa 'Golden Sword' (Adam's needle, Bear grass, Weak-leaf yucca, Golden Sword soapwort)
Photo/Illustration: Jennifer Benner
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Adam Jones: In Florida, the transition from summer growth to winter growth typically begins sometime between mid-September and mid-October.
Adam's Needle (Yucca filamentosa)
Mature Height/Spread: These very hardy plants form a low cluster of stiff, pointed leaves, 2½ feet long and 1 inch wide. The leaves have long, loose fibers at the edges.
Adam's needle is a great way to add a tropical note poolside - this yucca is very neat and has soft spines that won't needle swimmer's bare skin should they pass too closely (like some other, more vicious Yucca species)!
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Adam and Eve in yew; Adam a little shattered by the fall of the tree of knowledge in the great storm; Eve and the serpent very flourishing.
The tower of Babel, not yet finished.
ADAM'S APPLE is a variety of the Lime (Citrus limetta). Superstition relates that a piece of the forbidden apple stuck in Adam's throat, and his descendants ever after had the lump in the front of the neck which is so named.
Adam's Needle - Common Perriwinkle
Common Persimmon - Northern Red Oak
Northern Spicebush - Thickspike Wheatgrass
Thin Paspalum - Yerba Mansa ...
'Adam's Pearmain', 'Alfriston', 'Ashmead's Kernal', 'Barnack Beauty', 'Beauty of Bath', 'Brownlees Russet', 'Charles Ross', 'Cheddar Cross', 'Claygate Pearmain', 'Cockle Pippin', 'Cornish Aromatic', 'Cornish Gilliflower', 'Court Pendu Plat', ...
Echinacea 'Adam Saul' PP 21023 (Crazy Pink Coneflower) This 2008 introduction from Itsaul Plants forms a 2' tall by 2' wide clump with over 100 flowers per plant, making it one of the most floriferous echinacea on the market.
By Judith Adam Photography by Turid Forsyth
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Also known as Adam's needle, Yucca filamentosa is the type of yucca that grows low to the ground. When it blooms, it shoots out a stalk that can reach up to 12 feet tall. Lovely white flowers…
Plants to Use in an Ecosystem ...
Cucumis sativus, 'Adam' cucumber
annual, average care
created by Seeds of Change
zones: 1a thru 11a ...
McCauley, Charles Adam Hoke, 1843-1913: Soldier, naturalist. 1876 was ornithologist with Red River Expedition. In charge of military survey of Southwest Colorado in the vicinity of Pagosa Springs.
may be sucked, - cf. A.-S. huni-suge, privet; Ger. Geissblatt; Fr. chevrefeuille), botanical name Lonicera, a genus of climbing, erect or prostrate shrubs, of the natural order Caprifoliaceee, so named after the 16th-century German botanist Adam ...
Yucca Filamentosa ‘Variegata' Adam's Needle
Yuccas come from Central America, Mexico and the southern USA and have been cultivated here for three centuries. They are exotic architectural plants that have striking lance shaped, rigid leaves.
Adam Buddle (1660-1715), an amateur English botanist.
Some authorities say that Linnaeus spelled the genus as Buddleja, and this is the way name appears in his Species Plantarum, published in 1753, in which the genus was first described.
So too in the Genesis story, whrein Eve but not Adam knows the secret of immortal youth from the Tree of Life, Adam is cast from the Garden (like Heracles from his temporary position on Olympus), but Eve is never said to have been cast out.
Several species are known as Adam's-needle, particularly those that are hardy and are cultivated in the North, most common of which is Y. filamentosa. The Joshua tree (Y. brevifolia) is a picturesque treelike species of desert regions.
Our friends from Sinclair (The Pharoah of Foamflowers) Adam Dunvegan Nursery, this is rated as one of the most vigorous of the genus. A strong grower with glossy, rugose leaves and excellent bronze fall and winter color.
lonicera, from the Latin for honeysuckle, a reference to its honeysuckle-like appearance though it is not a "true" honeysuckle OR named for Adam Lonitzer (1528-1586), a German herbalist, ...
Yucca glauca, soapweed, and Yucca filamentosa, Adam's needle, are both suitable to colder climates, respectively hardy to zone 3 and zones 4-5; the popular Yucca brevifolia, Joshua tree, is hardy to zone 7 brevifolia
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Synonyms: Aaron's rod, lady's foxglove, cow's lungwort, clown's lungwort, bullock's lungwort, donkey's ears, torches, mullein dock, velvet plant, velvet dock, Our Lady's flannel, Adam's flannel, old man's flannel, woollen, rag paper, ...
pharmHerba Rutae Amharischጤነ አዳም Taena Adam (Ruta chalepensis ) Arabischفيجن, سذاب فَي'جَن, سَذَاب Fayjan, Sadab
BaskischBortusai, Boskoitz, Erruda, Moskatxa ...
Plants of this group were known b y Linnaeus, in fact he established the genus to honor an English botanist and vicar named Adam Buddle (1660-1715).
Lonicera was named after German naturalist Adam Lonitzer. Pileata means capped, describing the fruit's dimple.
Photographed in author's garden.
Yucca (Dagger plant, Spanish bayonet, Adam's beedle, Spanish dagger)
Zamioculcas (ZZ plant, Aroid Palm, Arum Fern)
Zantedeschia (Calla Lily) ...
fast grower when given supplemental water
large variability in flower color
variety "Lois Adam" is podless
"Desert Hope" has white flower
awesome tree (the favorite of the author of these web pages) ...
Tabernaemontana divaricata Flore Pleno, Hollarhena densiflora
Family: Apocynaceae
Crape Jasmine, Carnation of India, East Indian rosebay, Adam's apple, Nero's crown, coffee rose, Crepe Gardenia
Origin: northern India to Thailand ...
Many of the large, wide fireplaces of old country houses and cottages did not have a mantelpiece, they were fronted with a large supporting beam which lay flat in the brickwork. But there were some houses with beautiful Adam mantelpieces-a good, wide, ...
The name Lonicera was given by Linnaeus in honor of Adam Lonicer, a physician and naturalist, born at Marburg in 1528, who wrote, among opther works, the Naturalis Historiae Opus novum, ...
The genus name may be found spelled several ways in the trade or literature. While many spell the genus name with a j, (Buddleja), others spell it with an i (Buddleia). A few use Buddlea. The genus name honors an English botanist, Adam Buddle.
This is in line with our previous article on of the importance of the lawn soil condition . As pointed out then it is better to have a soil that will not puddle. Clay soils will, but sandy soils will not. This email came from Adam in Evanston, ...
 See also: Green, May, Pink, Grass, Evergreen
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