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Yucca
“Remove
the danger which threatens the extinction of the family and immediately
Nature removes the defensive armor. On the desert, for instance,
the yucca has a thorn like a point of steel. Follow it from the
desert into the high tropical table-lands of Mexico where there
is plenty of soil and moisture, plenty of chances for yuccas to
thrive, and you will find it turned into a tree, and the thorn merely
a dull blade-ending.”
— from John C. Van Dyke’s The Desert, published
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