It was sweetened with the juice of yucca fruit.
The yucca plant is a desert lily which produces numerous creamy white flowers.
Innovative salads and hearty entrees make a full meal, but feel free to add a side of plantains, yucca, sautéed spinach or rice.
The western dry areas have the old-world leguminous Astragalus and Prosopis (Mesquit), but are especially characterized by the northward extension of the new-world tropical Cactaceae, Mgmmillaria, Cereus and Opuntia, by succulent Amar llideae such as A gave (of which the so-called American aloe is a type), and by arborescent Liliaceae (Yucca).
The tree yucca often attains a height of 20 to 25 ft., and a diameter of 1.5 ft.