Thursday, May 20, 2004
"you-ca, yuck-a"
This is funny - I was just reading Rich's post about yuca and it's kind of coincidental that I found some either yuca or yucca growing nearby recently. We went for a hike with my parents on mother's day and after walking for a while, we found an abandoned house. It was pretty interesting - both front and back porches had existed at one time, but the roofing was all that remained on the ground due to collapse of the porches. Anyway, there were these strange looking plants, kind of looked like 2 foot pineapple tops. Well, earlier this week my mom called and told me she found out it was yuca or yucca and we proceeded to have a long discussion about whether yuca and yucca are the same thing and what the proper pronunciation was. So as i research this, i find that everyone is confused about the difference between yuca and yucca, but they are definitely two different plants with two different uses. I'm not sure why either one would be growing near an abandoned house in Virginia, however. And I don't know which one I found because of the plethora of spelling errors I found using the google image search. We're going back in June to see if it's flowering and then we'll know for sure. I know you will be eagerly awaiting my findings....
|
This is funny - I was just reading Rich's post about yuca and it's kind of coincidental that I found some either yuca or yucca growing nearby recently. We went for a hike with my parents on mother's day and after walking for a while, we found an abandoned house. It was pretty interesting - both front and back porches had existed at one time, but the roofing was all that remained on the ground due to collapse of the porches. Anyway, there were these strange looking plants, kind of looked like 2 foot pineapple tops. Well, earlier this week my mom called and told me she found out it was yuca or yucca and we proceeded to have a long discussion about whether yuca and yucca are the same thing and what the proper pronunciation was. So as i research this, i find that everyone is confused about the difference between yuca and yucca, but they are definitely two different plants with two different uses. I'm not sure why either one would be growing near an abandoned house in Virginia, however. And I don't know which one I found because of the plethora of spelling errors I found using the google image search. We're going back in June to see if it's flowering and then we'll know for sure. I know you will be eagerly awaiting my findings....
|
