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The female enters the yucca flower, rolls its sticky pollen into a ball and puts her eggs inside it. Then she literally stuffs it into the ovary at the center of the flower. The eggs will hatch out ...

New Mexico is home to a plant that perfectly symbolizes the state's tenacity and natural beauty – the yucca. In fact, the yucca has been the state's flower for decades. As a symbol of adaptation and ...