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Plant of the Day

Monday 8 December 2025

A great example of the use of contrasting textures of foliage with the spiky drama of Yucca gloriosa 'Variegata' (Spanish dagger) at the centre. This is a single-stemmed evergreen shrub with stiff, spine-tipped leaves that are variegated. It grows in a well-drained soil in full sun.

Jill Raggett

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double posting cause i wanna show off my new starter

so, im making a pokemon region based off of texas! here's the first starter line.

first one is a mockingbird mixed with a bluebonnet

second is a bluejay mixed with a spanish dagger

third is a crested caracara mixed with a texas wisteria

they all have a "texas night sky full of stars in a field of flowers" inspiration

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Yucca faxoniana / Eve's Needle at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

American Southwest (2) (3) (4) (5) by David Nelson Blair

Via Flickr:

(1) Light from the late afternoon sun catches the face of Willow Mountain at a low angle. (2) Stunning blossoms of Spanish Dagger (Yucca faxoniana) grace the private Terlingua ranch the second week in March. (3) Ringed by mourning doves (Zenaidúra macroúra), a scaled quail (Callipépla squamáta) feeds at a remote homesite in Brewster Country, Texas, near Big Bend National Park. (4) Blossoms of Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) are on the verge on the private Terlingua Ranch. The plant and its sky-scraping red flowerers are ubiquitous in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora and the U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. (5) A blossom of Hibiscus (Hibiscus denudatus) graces the desert.

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Regional Cacnea and evolution ideas :)

I liked the spooky cactus that Cacturn was, but I felt it wasn’t “complete”, so I went with a sinister Spanish dagger/Yucca plant inspiration. I apologize for my hideous handwriting.