needle palm

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Noun1.needle palm - yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendagesneedle palm - yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
Adam's needle, Adam's needle-and-thread, spoonleaf yucca, Yucca filamentosa
yucca - any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America
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Outside the tropics, Serenoa repens is found in sandy pine-oak wood understory and Rhapidophyllum hystrix grows on calcareous soils in wet areas in deciduous woods in south-eastern USA.
Species diversity and growth forms in tropical American palm communities
ex Schult., and needle palm Rhapidophyllum hystrix (Pursh).
Feeding, reproduction, and development of the red palm mite (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) on selected palms and banana cultivars in quarantine
The smallest is needle palm (Rhapidophyllum hystrix; zones 7, 8, 9, and 12 through 24), which does well except in California's high desert.
Palms that won't grow up to be headaches
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