Talk:Yucca schidigera

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Is this the tree...

Is the the kind of tree that one sees while driving through the Angeles National Forest, Lancaster, Palmdale, and Mojave. If so, it's like a cousin of the joshua tree then... Thanks. fpo 04:34, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

No. That tree of Lancaster and Palmdale is the Joshua tree. This one typically does not have branches, and has much larger leaves. PPdd (talk) 20:56, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Area denial weapons

The issue isn't so much "Spanish bayonet" (I added H. whipplei to the dab page), but rather that you don't source your addition. It seems unlikely to me, since Mojave yucca doesn't grow in any areas that anyone would want to defend. I suspect it was a different yucca species. But if you can provide a reference, go ahead and add it back.--Curtis Clark (talk) 22:10, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Not to mention that in the purported time frame, there was no ability to transport large numbers of large live plants across the continent, and if carried as seeds, they probably would have rotted instead of germinating in the humid Caribbean climate. If it really is commonly seen today, then it shouldn't be too hard to find a photo (perhaps even in commons!) and id the likely species. Stan (talk) 22:54, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

OK, having wondered why this claim has been so persistent, I poked around a bit. It seems that at one point early in the 18th century the Castillo de San Marcos guarding St. Augustine, Florida had "Spanish bayonet" planted around the bases of its walls; several books make mention of this, for instance [1] and [2]. A floristic survey in 2005 ([3]) lists the species as Y. aloifolia. Stan (talk) 20:52, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

And this is mentioned at Area denial weapons.--Curtis Clark (talk) 14:09, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

'cos I fixed that article right after commenting here. :-) Now let's see many months it takes for the old bad info to disappear from mirrors and Google caches. :-) Stan (talk) 18:37, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Help. I am hoping that I am putting this in the correct location. HOW IS SCHIDIGERA PRONOUNCED?? Is 'SCH' pronounced hard as in 'school'? And if so, is 'igera' pronounced soft? (like gggera) or hard as in 'iggg') Thank you for your patience. I have searched everywhere including merriam-webster's dictionary (www.m-w.com) I review ingredients with customers at my workplace and NO ONE knows how to correctly pronounce it (making me feel extremely un-educated). Help and Thank you. Jim — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.44.8.100 (talk) 06:02, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

It depends. A couple answers I found googling "schidigera pronunciation" are "shi-DIJ-er-a" "skih-DIDGE-ur-uh" and "ski-DEE-ger-ruh". There's really no consensus. Generally, scientific names are pronounced roughly (sometimes very roughly) following the rules of classical Latin pronunciation. There's really no way to pronounce "sch" in Latin, though, with a nod to classical Greek, you could go with pronouncing it "sk". However, a substantial number of botanists advocate pronouncing scientific names derived from a person's name as that person would have to pronounced it (which could be quite different from the Latin rules of pronunciation); the drawback to this approach is that one would have to know how to properly pronounce names in German, French, Italian, Polish, Chinese, and many other languages. However, if you can find out how to pronounce the surname "Schidiger" in German, I'd suggest going this route (I'm not sure, but "shi-DIJ-er-a" is probably reasonably close to proper German pronunciation). Plantdrew (talk) 03:36, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

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