I need help answering the question: What differentiates the two species Yucca an

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I need help answering the question: What differentiates the two species Yucca angustissima and Yucca baccata? Is it ecological differences? Phenology? Habitat differences? I need at least a couple paragraphs to support and answer this...anything that is recorded on the species. Any references or data I can look at to support this would be awesome too! Help would be much appreciated! Thank you. I need help answering the question: What differentiates the two species Yucca angustissima and Yucca baccata? Is it ecological differences? Phenology? Habitat differences? I need at least a couple paragraphs to support and answer this...anything that is recorded on the species. Any references or data I can look at to support this would be awesome too! Help would be much appreciated! Thank you.

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Yucca angustissima is known as the narrow leaf yucca. It belongs to the family of Agavaceae. It is grown as a ornamental species. It is specifically a low lying species; a perennial herb. It also grows as a shrub. It forms colonies of basal rosettes. The leaves of this plant are long and thin. The flowers of this plant are cream to greenish white in colour, pendent; the infloresence are of racemose type. Fruits are dry capsular in nature bearing black seeds. It is essentially found in sandy places and along the rocky hillsides of deserts.

Yucca baccata is known as banana yucca. It grows on rocky slopes, oak woodlands, and at grasslands of elevation of above 470 metres. It is an evergreen shrub which prefers growing on well drained soil. It has its fruit shaped in the form of banana. The leaves are specifically broad, being blue green in colour. The leaves are borne or short or non existent trunks. The shade of flowers vary from cream to purplish white. Seeds are rough, black, wingless. The fruit is of indehiscent, fleshy type and cylindrical in shape. It tolerates extreme conditions and are found in rocky mountains.

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