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Yucca elata is a perennial plant, with common names that include soaptree, soaptree yucca, soapweed, and palmella. [3] [4] It is native to southwestern North America, in the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert in the United States (western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona), southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora, Nuevo León).
Sapindus is a genus of about thirteen species of shrubs and small trees in the lychee family, Sapindaceae and tribe Sapindeae.It is native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the world.
Sapindus saponaria is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree [3] native to the Americas. Common names include wingleaf soapberry, [4] western soapberry, jaboncillo, [2] sulluku [5] [6] [7] and manele and a'e . [8] Its genus name, "Sapindus", comes from the Latin, meaning Indian soap, and its specific epithet means "soapy." [3]
Many are laticiferous, i.e. they contain latex, a milky sap, and many contain mildly toxic saponins with soap-like qualities in either the foliage and/or the seeds, or roots. [citation needed] The largest genera are Serjania, Paullinia, Allophylus and Acer.
Sapindus mukorossi, commonly known as Indian soapberry, washnut, ritha [2] [3] [4] [5] or Chinese soapberry, [1] is a species of tree in the family Sapindaceae.It is ...
The curved hanging pods, with a bulge opposite each seed, split open into two twisted halves to reveal the hard, scarlet seeds. This tree is used for making soap, [10] and a red dye can be obtained from the wood. The wood, which is extremely hard, is also used in boat-building, making furniture and for firewood.