[pct-l] plant identification

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

I was going to guess it was Yucca, too. You can eat the flowers,  
although I think they're a little bitter. I'm not sure about eating  
the rest.

There are two yuccas out there that I could see. One was the whipplei  
but the other was shorter with fatter leaves.

Diane

On Apr 28, 2010, at 5:16 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> This plant is a Yucca whipplei, common name Our Lord?s Candle. The  
> one in
> the picture, is an immature plant. It is not poison but it  
> certainly did not
> agree with a least one hiker who tried to sample it. He had a long  
> night
> last night with bouts of vomiting etc. I'd say off hand, although  
> the plant
> may be edible, I'd stick to pro bars.

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